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bunco n. [
bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam] a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
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bunco v. [
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con] 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"
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