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One who runs games in a traveling carnival. Although often included [under the umbrella] terms “carny” and “carnie”, splinterheads consider themselves to be of a different ilk, completely separate from sideshow performers and ride operators, whom they consider to be freaks and simpletons, respectively. Some splinterheads employ morally [questionable] tactics to draw people to their games, keep them playing, and insure that they lose–firmly establishing the stereotype of the skulduggerous splinterhead. Indeed, it is from splinterheads where we get the term “mark”, one who is targeted as a dupe in some scheme: [back in the day], after a splinterhead had identified a gullible carnivalgoer, he/she might discreetly pat this person’s back with chalk, leaving the unsuspecting individual easily recognizable to all splinterheads.
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