snookered
Related to snookered: schnockered
snookered
1. Cheated, conned, or scammed. Nearly 400,000 people ended up getting snookered by the company, which stole almost $35 million in total. I couldn't help feeling like I'd been snookered as I drove off the lot in the second-hand car.
2. slang Drunk. We spent the whole night getting snookered on cheap vodka, so we had the worst hangovers of our lives the next morning. He was so snookered he couldn't even say his own name properly.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
snookered
(ˈsnʊkɚd) mod. cheated; deceived. I was snookered skillfully and quickly. It was almost a pleasure.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions
- schnookered
- shnookered
- patsy
- get screwed
- after the fact
- get burned (by someone)
- steal out of some place
- get your just deserts
- get just deserts
- dessert