CONFIDENCE TRICK

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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 ("confidence trick" is a kind of...):

cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confidence trick"):

sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))

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