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Bunco

noun
(Written also bunko)
1.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting.
verb
1.
Deprive of by deceit.  Synonyms: con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, scam, short-change, swindle, victimize.  "She defrauded the customers who trusted her" , "The cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"



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"Bunco" Quotes from Famous Books



... monologue was an account of how a farmer got the best of a bunco steerer in New York City, and was delivered in the esoteric dialect of the Bowery. It was not long before willing smiles gave place to long-drawn faces of comic bewilderment, and, although Copernicus set his best example by artificial grins and pretended ...
— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... us that the good old play We call the game of life, Is fair no more, and every day Leads on to more of strife; The cards are marked, the hands are stuffed, The players bunco feel, And graft has all the goodness bluffed Till ...
— Oklahoma Sunshine • Freeman E. (Freeman Edwin) Miller



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