bunco
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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.
The wandering vagabond considers him the "bunco-man" of the beggars' world, and that is a good name.
Tramping with Tramps | Josiah FlyntThe 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. WooldridgeI 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 DunnFor 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.
The Red Conspiracy | Joseph J. Mereto
British Dictionary definitions for bunco
a swindle, esp one by confidence tricksters
(tr) to swindle; cheat
Origin of bunco
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