"slinter" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Originally South African slang, borrowed from Afrikaans slenter (“scam”) from Dutch schlenter (“trick”)",
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      "form": "slinters",
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  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1929, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 4",
          "text": "Ah, never a mother's love they'll rob, By working a slinter — s'elp me Bob!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, Frank Sargeson, Sunset Village, page 30",
          "text": "...or he might work a slinter if you gave him half a chance .",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1976, New Zealand. Parliament, Parliamentary Debates. House of Representatives",
          "text": "It may be able to work a slinter on the young people who will now have to carry the burden of this extra taxation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2018, Anna Rogers, With Them Through Hell, page 14",
          "text": "Front-line men like Gray would come to feel that some 'drafted to Stationary and Base Hopitals and Hosp. Ships... work all manner of \"slinters\" [tricks] to stay there for the duration' and 'should be given a chance to show their prowess at stretcher bearing and whizband doging...There is absolutely no comparison between the 2 kinds of work.'",
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        "A scam or deception; fast one."
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          "fast one",
          "fast one"
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        "(New Zealand, South Africa, Australia) A scam or deception; fast one."
      ],
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        "New-Zealand",
        "South-Africa"
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  "word": "slinter"
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          "ref": "1929, New Zealand Railways Magazine - Volume 4",
          "text": "Ah, never a mother's love they'll rob, By working a slinter — s'elp me Bob!",
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