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Bunco

noun
(Written also bunko)
1.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting.
verb
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"



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"Bunco" Quotes from Famous Books



... anyone bunco you, my boy," he added, as he climbed into his car and grasped the steering-wheel. "By the way, Ralph, I saw my friend Professor Whalen in Oakvale, the other day. He told me he sighted a fine pair of golden eagles up here in the mountains, recently, and would willingly give a hundred and fifty dollars ...
— The Boy Scouts of the Geological Survey • Robert Shaler

... thank you, Godfrey, for telling me. I was imagining that either Mrs. Magnus was crazy or that some one was trying to bunco her. This is different. If she wants to lie to me, ...
— Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 • Collected and Arranged by Francis J. Reynolds



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