Meaning of snake-oil | Babel Free

Definitions

To dupe or con.

informal, transitive

Examples

“And this is particularly so for many of our women students who have been hustled and snake-oiled to deny the validity of their intellects.”

“Before she had a chance to deal with her hangover, he was on the phone snake-oiling her into the first of what would be many ill-fated fraud cases.”

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