| NOUN | act | confidence game, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, 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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| Meaning | A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. | |
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| Synonyms | bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, 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 | |
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