WordWeb Online

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

1. Deprive of by deceit
   "He buncoed me out of my inheritance"
   - victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer], nobble [Brit], diddle, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle [N. Amer], short-change, con, victimise [Brit], ream [N. Amer], grift [N. Amer]

Derived forms: buncoes, buncoed, buncoing, buncos

Type of: cheat, chisel, rig, rip off, swindle

Encyclopedia: Bunco