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for bunco
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
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, originally by means of
cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling
tactic. [Written also bunco.]
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Bunco \Bun"co\, n.
see bunko. [Written also bunko.]
[PJC] Buncombe
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
bunco
n 1: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a
person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco
game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick,
confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting,
flimflam]
v 1: 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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct,
gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :
26 Moby Thesaurus words for "bunco":
ballot-box stuffing, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, cozenage,
diddle, diddling, dishonesty, dodge, fishy transaction, flam,
flimflam, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gerrymandering, graft,
grift, gyp, gyp joint, illicit business, imposition, imposture,
racket, scam, swindle
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