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CONFIDENCE TRICK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does confidence trick mean?
• CONFIDENCE TRICK (noun)
The noun CONFIDENCE TRICK has 1 sense:
1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Familiarity information: CONFIDENCE TRICK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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 ("confidence trick" is a kind of...):
cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "confidence trick"):
sting operation (a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals))
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