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Meaning of bunco

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  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}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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