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BUNCO

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Synonyms:

bunco; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; hustle; sting

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("bunco" is a kind of...):

cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunco"):

sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))

Derivation:

bunco (deprive of by deceit)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "bunco" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bunco"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

They bunco him of all his money

Derivation:

bunco (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)

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