A term sometimes used to refer to conmen, due to the stereotype of a slick-looking man in a three piece suit. The term isn't gender-specific, but most people seem to use it to indicate a conman (versus the usually more feminine term "grifter").
Three piece also implies that the conman (or woman) was high-class among the stealing trade, or acted and dressed as a rich person to inspire the confidence necessary to the con.
Three piece also implies that the conman (or woman) was high-class among the stealing trade, or acted and dressed as a rich person to inspire the confidence necessary to the con.
"I invested my money, but it turned out my broker was a three piece."
"I gave that three piece every penny I had and he stole all of it!"
"I gave that three piece every penny I had and he stole all of it!"
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Checking your pockets before leaving for the three necessities: Phone (hollerbox), wallet, and keys. To pat the left, right, and back pocket ensuring you have your belongings. A stoner's best friend.
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Get the three-piece mug.In 2009, a former member of a radical left student organization from the 1960s (i.e., the SDS) repackaged communist vanguardism into a patriot vanguardism designed to appeal to the far-right ideology of the American militia movement. Instead of building class consciousness, these III Percenters would challenge the growing power of the federal government, and build a consciousness that the federal government needs to return to a more limited form (e.g., the original Constitution). Like radical movements during the counter-cultural 1960s, III Percenters choose direct action to forward their agenda, typically by showing up carrying firearms in situations where police authorities are in conflict with local residents.
The origins of 3% are not clear. Colonists fighting in the American Revolutions were less than 1% of the population, just as less than 1% of the population are veterans today. Support for the American Revoltution was somewhere between 40-45%. Since the 1950s, outlaw biker gangs have claimed they are "one percenters" and "five percenters" are an offshoot of the black nationalist Nation of Islam. It seems likely that 3% simply splits the difference, and linking it to the American Revolution makes it unnecessary to talk about the communist history of vanguardism and where these repackaged ideas came from.
The origins of 3% are not clear. Colonists fighting in the American Revolutions were less than 1% of the population, just as less than 1% of the population are veterans today. Support for the American Revoltution was somewhere between 40-45%. Since the 1950s, outlaw biker gangs have claimed they are "one percenters" and "five percenters" are an offshoot of the black nationalist Nation of Islam. It seems likely that 3% simply splits the difference, and linking it to the American Revolution makes it unnecessary to talk about the communist history of vanguardism and where these repackaged ideas came from.
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