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Bunco game

noun

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

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"Bunco game" Quotes from Famous Books

... out. He went to his telephone and asked for a city so far away that when he had finished talking for ten minutes, he had spent enough money to keep General Ward in comfort for a month. Neal Ward, sitting in his room, heard Barclay say: "What kind of a damn bunco game were you fellows putting up on me in 1900? You got my money; that's all right; I didn't squeal at the assessment, did I?" Young Ward in the pause closed his door. But the bull-like roar of Barclay came through ...

— A Certain Rich Man • William Allen White

... Citizens' Union innocents believe that they were the real thing in the way of reformers, and that they had 100,000 voter back of them. They got the Borough President of Manhattan, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Register and a lot of lesser places, it was the greatest bunco game ...

— Plunkitt of Tammany Hall • George Washington Plunkitt

... him, anyway," replied Joe. "But sometimes I have a sneaking notion that he thinks yet that Dick and I played some kind of a bunco game on him by ...

— Baseball Joe Around the World - Pitching on a Grand Tour • Lester Chadwick

Words linked to "Bunco game" : sting operation, swindle, confidence trick, rig, cheat