To rip someone off,To get someones money by deceit.To scam someone for thier money by creating a ploy.To get over on a person or persons.
Its an old slang term used
in the early part of the 20th century.Depicted in the movie "
The Sting".
It was picked up again in the Bay Area in
the 1980's(mainly Oakland I believe)
The 3 con artists got together to
figure out a way to gaffle the tourists at Jack London square of thier money.
"How about 3 card monty
one of them says to the others"?"Yea" another agrees,"these suckers will fall for anything". It
should be easy to gaffle these fools the 3rd says.