Con or scheme

Usage examples of bunco.

They judged by the caliber of the men interested, and branded it a bunco game.

Other owners wandered around trying to bunco men into buying them out for a song.

Police bunco files bulge with records of con artists whose methods include the quick change.

The administration slices crime horizontally into categories: theft, bunco, vice, homicide.

I was thinking of going to the tea room and meeting a couple of gals from my Bunco club.

But when the hearing came up, Sutton placed Jim Reed and me in the witness-box, taking the stand later himself, and we showed that federal court that it had been buncoed out of an order of injunctive relief, in favor of the biggest set of ringsters that ever missed stretching hemp.

Bunco Squad men and, seated at his desk, a hungry lupine sharpie with onyx eyes who had to be Goodkind himself.

Often erroneously referred to as forms of the confidence racket, but actually only its kissing cousins, are what the professionals call bunco jobs.

In booths and at tables and the long bar were toothless bunco steerers, addict-pushers, and devious pimps.

Mr Copplestone Eade's credit might have evoked no raves from Dun & Bradstreet, but he always had a working reserve of cash, since bunco is one of the most capitalistic kinds of crime: and his requirements were relatively modest, consisting at this point mainly of office space in an enclave where movies were in fact busily and evidently being made.

Also, the police notified us through Interpol that he was under suspicion of running a bunco game.

To-day I know how it is that year after year, week after week, the bunco steerer, who is the confidence trick and the card-sharper man of other climes, secures his prey.