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

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

finagle collapse

defraud collapse

fiddle collapse: play on a violin; "Zuckerman fiddled that song very nicely"; play the violin or fiddle; commit fraud and steal from one's employer; "We found out that she had been fiddling for years"; avoid (one's assigned duties); "The derelict soldier shirked his duties"

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"

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

flam collapse

do in collapse

gyp collapse

beguile collapse

chisel collapse: an edge tool with a flat steel blade with a cutting edge; carve with a chisel; "chisel the marble"

cheat collapse: a deception for profit to yourself; defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit; deprive somebody of something by deceit; "The con-man beat me out of $50"; "This salesman ripped us off!"; "we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme"; "They chiseled me out of my money"; engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; "Who's chiseling on the side?"

swindle collapse: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

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