| NOUN | act | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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| VERB | social | bunco, victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | deprive of by deceit |
| Meaning | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. | |
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| Synonyms | bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, hustle, sting, flimflam | |
| Narrower | sting operation | A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals) |
| Broader | swindle, cheat, rig | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme |
| Spanish | bunco, bunko, camelo, engatusamiento, estafa, fraude, timo | |
| Catalan | bunco, bunko, entabanada, estafa, frau | |
| Verbs | bunco | deprive of by deceit |
| Meaning | deprive of by deceit. | |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s somebody; Somebody ----s somebody PP | |
| Model | They bunco him of all his money | |
| Synonyms | victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, hornswoggle, short-change, con | |
| Narrower | short-change, short | cheat someone by not returning him enough money |
| Broader | cheat, rip off, chisel | deprive somebody of something by deceit |
| Spanish | dar gato por liebre, defraudar, embaucar, engañar, estafar, petardear, timar, victimizar | |
| Catalan | defraudar, entabanar, estafar | |
| Nouns | bunco | a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property |
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