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BUNCO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Synonyms:
bunco; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; hustle; sting
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bunco" is a kind of...):
cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunco"):
sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))
Derivation:
bunco (deprive of by deceit)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Deprive of by deceit
Example:
She defrauded the customers who trusted her
Synonyms:
bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "bunco" is one way to...):
cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bunco"):
short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP
Sentence example:
They bunco him of all his money
Derivation:
bunco (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)
