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
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
