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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.






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"Bunco" Quotes from Famous Books



... midnight before he had finished his work at Scotland Yard. He had had a long interview with the Garden of Eden, in which promises were adroitly mingled with threats. In the result the "bunco-steerer" had promised to keep his eyes and ears alert for news of any one resembling Goldenburg. There was a string of other callers who had been discreetly sorted out by the superintendent's diplomatic ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest

... been caught by one of the oldest tricks in the whole bunco list—the lost Spanish mine swindle. That acid, together with the rest of the outfit, means a gold-hunt as plain as if it were spelled out. And the Spanish professor was sent for, not to give lessons, but ...
— Average Jones • Samuel Hopkins Adams

... I'd bunco any New York man he'd pick out, and you happened to be the one. You see, wife and I and Sam were here for a few days and we struck Thanksgiving and wanted some fun, and we HAD it. You're white, old man all the way through—white ...
— The Veiled Lady - and Other Men and Women • F. Hopkinson Smith



Words linked to "Bunco" :   rig, cheat, sting operation, chisel, rip off, short



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