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Answer for the clue "Swindler's operation ", 5 letters:
bunko

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Word definitions for bunko in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bunco \Bun"co\, n. see bunko . [Written also bunko .]

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

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of bunco English) vb. (alternative spelling of bunco English)

Usage examples of bunko.

I know some theatrical agents I can call on and, of course, the Pinkertons keep files on grifters, bunko artists, and such, because they provide security at so many state fairs and such.

It was one reason he'd even been able to stick out his nine residential months here with twenty-one other newly detoxed housebreakers, hoods, whores, fired execs, Avon ladies, subway musicians, beer-bloated construction workers, vagrants, indignant car salesmen, bulimic trauma-mamas, bunko artists, mincing pillow-biters, North End hard guys, pimply kids with electric noserings, denial-ridden housewives and etc.

In five short years he had accumulated more money than in an entire lifetime of mob bunko, jukebox skimming and mail fraud.