cons

Plural: conses

Noun

• an argument opposed to a proposal
• a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
• a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• plural of con
• A data structure in Lisp that is a pair of pointers, car and cdr, used mainly for lists.

Verb

• deprive of by deceit
• commit to memory; learn by heart
• To obtain a list from a cons or a nesting of conses; to prepend an element to a list by forming a cons of that element and the list; to obtain a list from a smaller one by repeated application of such kind of prepending.
• third-person singular simple present indicative of con

Synonyms

bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, convict, defraud, diddle, flimflam, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, hustle, inmate, learn, memorise, memorize, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, sting, swindle, victimize, yard bird, yardbird, cons cell

Antonyms

pro