coin shooter
n.— «Dennis Ranney, for example, is known as a “coin shooter.”…People lose money. That’s what he likes about coin shooting.» —“Solitary stalker sniffs out his backyard booty” by Jeff Klinkenberg St. Petersburg Times (Florida) Mar. 11, 1987. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
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