What does chancer mean?
Chancer means (UK, Ireland, slang) A scheming opportunist..
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/ˈtʃɑːn.sə(ɹ)/ · noun
(UK, Ireland, slang) A scheming opportunist..
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.
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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Chancer means (UK, Ireland, slang) A scheming opportunist..
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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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