1. people who trick or deceive others; swindlers or con artists
Usage: informal; chiefly North American; plural of hornswoggler

Examples

• The hornswogglers convinced the elderly couple to invest in a fake business scheme.
• Those hornswogglers at the carnival rigged all the games to take people's money.
• The detective exposed the hornswogglers who had been running a Ponzi scheme for years.
• Don't trust those hornswogglers—they'll sell you anything with a smooth story.
• The town was full of hornswogglers trying to sell worthless mining claims during the gold rush.