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English Dictionary: bunco |
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2 results for bunco |
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: |
- bunco
- n
- a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a
person to buy worthless property
Synonym(s): bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
- v
- deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"
Synonym(s): victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: |
Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at
cards. Cf. {Bank} (in the commercial sense).]
A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a
sham lottery. [Written also {bunco}.]
{Bunko steerer}, a person employed as a decoy in bunko.
[Slang, U.S.]
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