rooks

Noun

• (chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
• common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow
• plural of rook

Verb

• deprive of by deceit
• third-person singular simple present indicative of rook

Synonyms

bunco, castle, con, Corvus frugilegus, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize