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.