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bunco

noun

1 bunco

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, hustle, sting.

verb

1 bunco

Deprive of by deceit.

synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, goldbrick, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change ... show more.

Roget 791: steal, thieve, rob, mug, purloin, pilfer, filch, prig, bag, nim, crib, cabbage, palm; abstract; ... show more


Moby thesaurus: ballot-box stuffing, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, cozenage, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flam, flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft, grift, gyp, gyp joint ... show more.

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