wallet inspector

noun

Etymology

Coined in The Simpsons 1993 episode "Homer Goes to College" in which a group of naive nerds willingly give their wallets to a thief identifying himself as "the wallet inspector".

Definitions

1
One who takes advantage of the naïveté of another, particularly if the ulterior motive…
One who takes advantage of the naïveté of another, particularly if the ulterior motive appears obvious.
- For years, scammers have walked a razor’s edge of trying to look legitimate while claiming to be some sort of distant relation to the wallet inspector.
- It isn’t just that a franchise that spent more than a decade crying poor because it handed its cash to the wallet inspector has become the behemoth it should have been all along.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA