BUNCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bunco mean? 

• BUNCO (noun)
  The noun BUNCO has 1 sense:

1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

  Familiarity information: BUNCO used as a noun is very rare.

• BUNCO (verb)
  The verb BUNCO has 1 sense:

1. deprive of by deceit

  Familiarity information: BUNCO used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BUNCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bunco; bunco game; bunko; bunko game; con; con game; confidence game; confidence trick; flimflam; hustle; sting

Hypernyms ("bunco" is a kind of...):

cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bunco"):

sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))

Derivation:

bunco (deprive of by deceit)

• BUNCO (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Context example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Hypernyms (to "bunco" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "bunco"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Sentence example:

They bunco him of all his money

Derivation:

bunco (a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property)