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Confidence game   /kˈɑnfədəns geɪm/   Listen
Confidence game

noun
1.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting.





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"Confidence game" Quotes from Famous Books



... left orphans when very young, and Mart began to go to the bad at once. It commenced with robbing birds' nests and orchards, and ended with the confidence game for which he was last sent to jail. That is the reason I use my pen name always. I wonder if you believe what I am ...
— Two Boys and a Fortune • Matthew White, Jr.
... is a confidence game. We came to be amused, and this fellow instructs in sociology. We didn't cough up two dollars to listen to a sermon; we came to be rested. There's trouble enough in the street without displaying it in a place of amusement. The fellow ...
— The Light of the Star - A Novel • Hamlin Garland


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