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bunco

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.]

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bunco

n. 1 (context US slang English) A swindle or confidence trick. 2 A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century. vb. (context transitive intransitive US slang English) To swindle (someone).

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

  2. v. 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" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]

Wikipedia
Bunco

Modern Bunco (also Bunko or Bonko) is a parlour game played in teams with three dice.

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.