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bunco: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

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con artist collapse

carpetbagger collapse: an outsider who seeks power or success presumptuously; "after the Civil War the carpetbaggers from the north tried to take over the south"

bunco artist collapse

confidence man collapse: a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim

pitchman collapse: an aggressive salesman who uses a fast line of talk to sell something

horse trader collapse: a hard bargainer

cardsharp collapse: a professional card player who makes a living by cheating at card games

thimblerig collapse

slicker collapse: a person with good manners and stylish clothing

pettifogger collapse

sharper collapse

con man collapse

shyster collapse: a person (especially a lawyer or politician) who uses unscrupulous or unethical methods

spieler collapse

gerrymandering collapse

bucket shop collapse: (formerly) a cheap saloon selling liquor by the bucket; an unethical or overly aggressive brokerage firm

illicit business collapse

shark collapse: any of numerous elongate mostly marine carnivorous fishes with heterocercal caudal fins and tough skin covered with small toothlike scales; a person who is unusually skilled in certain ways; "a card shark"; a person who is ruthless and greedy and dishonest; hunt shark; play the shark; act with trickery

fraudulence collapse: the quality of being fraudulent; a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

gyp joint collapse

boiler room collapse

shortchange collapse

euchre collapse: a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand

shell game collapse: a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under

cozen collapse: cheat or trick; "He cozened the money out of the old man"; act with artful deceit

rook collapse: common gregarious Old World bird about the size and color of the American crow

stack the cards collapse

mulct collapse: impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering"

scam collapse: a fraudulent business scheme

bilk collapse: evade payment to; "He bilked his creditors"; cheat somebody out of what is due, especially money

crimp collapse: a lock of hair that has been artificially waved or curled; someone who tricks or coerces men into service as sailors or soldiers; curl tightly; "crimp hair"; make ridges into by pinching together

finagle collapse

dishonesty collapse: lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing; the quality of being dishonest

defraud collapse

victimize collapse: punish unjustly; deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change"; make a victim of; "I was victimized by this con-man"

imposture collapse: pretending to be another person

swindler collapse: a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

gull collapse: mostly white aquatic bird having long pointed wings and short legs; fool or hoax; "The immigrant was duped because he trusted everyone"; "You can't fool me!"

goldbrick collapse: anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless; a brick-shaped block that looks like gold but is not; an idle worthless person; a soldier who performs his duties without proper care or effort

diddle collapse

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