bunco

[ buhng-koh ]

/ ˈbʌŋ koʊ /

Informal.

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noun, verb, plural bun·cos,bun·coed, bun·co·ing.

bunko.

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Words nearby bunco

bunch grass, bunching onion, bunch light, bunch pink, bunchy, bunco, buncombe, bund, Bundaberg, Bundelkhand, Bundesrat

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How to use bunco in a sentence

MORE ---------- Ron Paul: Still a Bunco Artist By David Frum It's sad and squalid that Ron Paul finished ahead of Jon Huntsman.
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The wandering vagabond considers him the "bunco-man" of the beggars' world, and that is a good name.
Tramping with Tramps|Josiah Flynt
The hold-up man—the card-sharp—the bunco-steerer—the get-rich-quick stock-broker fall "easy game" to the detective thus disguised.
Twenty Years a Detective in the Wickedest City in the World|Clifton R. Wooldridge
I won't bunco my neighbors an' I ain't goin' to 'low you to do it with any proposition I'm interested in.
Rimrock Trail|J. Allan Dunn

For fraud, exploited by the skillfulest of advertising bunco men, is the basis of the trade.
The Great American Fraud|Samuel Hopkins Adams
This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
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British Dictionary definitions for bunco

bunco

bunko

US informal

noun plural -cos or -kos

a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters

verb -cos, -coing, -coed, -kos, -koing or -koed

(tr) to swindle; cheat

Word Origin for bunco

C19: perhaps from Spanish banca bank (in gambling), from Italian banca bank 1

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bunko

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