bunco : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: bunco	by the DICT Development Group
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
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.]