BUNCO

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

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

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

(verb) deprive of by deceit; “He swindled me out of my inheritance”; “She defrauded the customers who trusted her”;

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology

Noun

bunco (countable and uncountable, plural buncos or buncoes)

(US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.

(uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.

A brigand.

Verb

bunco (third-person singular simple present buncos, present participle buncoing, simple past and past participle buncoed)

(transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

Source: Wiktionary

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