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bunco

/ bunco /
noun/verb

Definitions & Examples

noun Sense 1
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Type of:
swindle cheat rig
Kinds of:
sting operation
Derived:
victimize swindle rook goldbrick nobble
verb Sense 2
deprive of by deceit
"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"
Type of:
cheat rip off chisel
Kinds of:
short-change short
Derived:
bunco game bunko bunko game con confidence trick
Usage Patterns:
Somebody ----s something with something
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE
Semantic Complexity
54%
Sense Count
2
Total Synonyms
0
Total Relationships
19
Times Searched
3
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swindle cheat rig sting operation rip off chisel short-change short