"chancer" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2018 June 6, Peter Crawley, “Get Shorty: Chris O’Dowd as a chewed-up, charming chancer”, in Irish Times, retrieved 2022-08-29:",
          "text": "Actually, that's exactly what O'Dowd is doing in Get Shorty, presenting a taciturn thug with chewed up charm, a chancer pitching a movie in Hollywood.",
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          "text": "From then on, Emin became fixed in many minds as the drunken chancer who boasted about her promiscuity and called it art.",
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        "A scheming opportunist."
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        "(UK, Ireland, slang) A scheming opportunist."
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