bunco

Plural: buncoes, buncos

Noun

• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• A swindle or confidence trick.
• A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
• A brigand.

Verb

Verb Forms: buncoed, buncoing, buncos

• To swindle or defraud someone.
• deprive of by deceit
• To swindle (someone).

Examples

• He tried to BUNCO his opponent by claiming a fake word was valid.

Synonyms

bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, defraud, diddle, flimflam, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, hustle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, sting, swindle, victimize

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