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
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.
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
29 May 2025
(adjective) characterized by careful evaluation and judgment; “a critical reading”; “a critical dissertation”; “a critical analysis of Melville’s writings”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
