bunco
Theme: DECEPTION
1.
n. a scheme to swindle people. (From banca, the name of a card game in Spanish.)
He's been fiddling with bunco on the West Coast.All the stuff relating to bunco comes across this desk.
2.
tr. to swindle someone.
They buncoed an old lady and left her penniless.Fred tried to bunco a chick in Frisco, but felt sorry for her at the last minute.
bunco
1. noun
1
fraud; an act of fraud, especially a swindle by means of card-trickery; a confidence trick US, 1914.
2
a squad of police assigned to confidence swindles US, 1947
2. verb
to swindle someone, to cheat someone US, 1875