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Bunco

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Noun

1. bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting

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

Verb

2. bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize

deprive of by deceit

Example Sentences:
'He swindled me out of my inheritance'
'She defrauded the customers who trusted her'
'the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Bunco

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noun plural -cos or -kos
1. 
a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
verb -cos, -coing, -coed, -kos, -koing or -koed
2. (transitive)
to swindle; cheat

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Bunco

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nounWord forms: plural ˈbuncos
1.  Informal
a swindle, esp. at a card game or lottery; confidence game
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈbuncoed or ˈbuncoing
2.  Informal
to swindle; cheat

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Bunco

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n. pl. bun·cos also bun·kos
A swindle in which an unsuspecting person is cheated; a confidence game.
tr.v. bun·coed, bun·co·ing, bun·cos also bun·koed or bun·ko·ing or bun·kos
To swindle.

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