also: ごとし
pachinko swindler; pachinko scammer
A person who cheats or scams at pachinko parlors. ゴト is originally an abbreviation of 仕事 (shigoto), used in underworld slang to refer to cheating operations.
I heard a pachinko swindler was caught at that pachinko parlor.
The pachinko scammer swindled a large sum of money with a clever trick.
Standard spelling using katakana for ゴト and kanji for 師.
Hiragana variant of the same word; less common but still used.
ゴト is a slang abbreviation of 仕事 (shigoto, 'work'), used in the underworld to refer to cheating operations. 師 (shi) is a suffix meaning 'master' or 'specialist'. The term likely emerged in pachinko-related criminal circles.