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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property;
[syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bunko \Bun"ko\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bunkoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Bunkoing.] To swindle by a bunko game or scheme; to cheat or victimize in any similar way, as by a confidence game, passing a bad check, etc. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling tactic. [Written also bunco.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bunco \Bun"co\, n. see bunko. [Written also bunko.] [PJC] Buncombe
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

bunko n 1: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property [syn: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, confidence trick, confidence game, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam]