HORNSWOGGLE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

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

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

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

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

Sentence frames:

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