Meaning | The act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme. |
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Synonyms | cheat, rig |
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Narrower | 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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gyp, gip | (sometimes offensive) an act of swindling or cheating |
holdout | The act of hiding playing cards in a gambling game so they are available for personal use later |
pyramiding | A fraudulent business practice involving some form of pyramid scheme e.g., the chain of distribution is artificially expanded by an excessive number of distributors / distributors selling to other distributors / distributors at progressively higher wholesale prices until retail prices are unnecessarily inflated |
scam, cozenage | A fraudulent business scheme |
shell game, thimblerig | A swindling sleight-of-hand game |
swiz | British slang for a swindle |
Broader | fraud | Intentional deception resulting in injury to another person |
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Spanish | aletazo, arana, embaimiento, embaucamiento, engañifa, engaño, estafa, fraude, mangancia, petardo, pufo, superchería, timo, tocomocho, trapacería |
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Catalan | enganyifa, engany, ensarronada, estafada, estafa, martingala, tripijoc |
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Verbs | swindle | deprive of by deceit |
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