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Definition of bunco in English: bunconounPlural buncos ˈbʌŋkəʊˈbəŋkoʊ North American informal usually as modifier A swindle or confidence trick. Example sentencesExamples - Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
- But it's not just bunco artists who are suffering from this tightening of the purse strings.
- Because the producers hired police bunco squad members as consultants, the movie shows us all the nuts and bolts of the sorts of scams that can be run in a tent-revival format.
Synonyms sham, fraud, pretence, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, trojan horse
verbbuncoing, buncoed, buncoesˈbʌŋkəʊˈbəŋkoʊ [with object]North American dated, informal Swindle or cheat. he didn't propose to be buncoed without a fight Example sentencesExamples - The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.
- I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way.
- I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.
- They were not buncoed, and that water power would be worth many times what the investment was.
- I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
- Not until then did it begin to be clear to me that the great mass of people gathered at Whatcom, as well as myself had been buncoed.
- In America he is so busy that when he gets abroad he does not know what to do with his time, and in consequence can be easily buncoed.
- After the expenditure of the enormous sum of five hundred dollars (and we think the present day graduate who spent ten thousand dollars for a no better education has been badly buncoed), and twelve months of our valuable time, on March 25th 1885, we were turned loose on an unsuspecting public, a full fledged obstetrician.
- ‘Hyperbole aside,’ says I, ‘do you know of any immediate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar or two except by applying to the Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’
- The St. Regis tribe of Indians of Franklin County claim that they were buncoed by the last legislature, and are so incensed that an outbreak at the reservation is feared.
- The conduct of Mr. Springborn's department was always a matter of pride with the administration, and great was the consternation of his friends when the newspapers told a story one morning of how Mr. Springborn had been buncoed.
Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, finagle, get the better of
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from Spanish banca, the name of a card game. Definition of bunco in US English: bunco(also bunko) nounˈbəNGkōˈbəŋkoʊ North American informal usually as modifier A swindle or confidence trick. he was out to make a buck using fraud or bunco Example sentencesExamples - Because the producers hired police bunco squad members as consultants, the movie shows us all the nuts and bolts of the sorts of scams that can be run in a tent-revival format.
- But it's not just bunco artists who are suffering from this tightening of the purse strings.
- Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.
Synonyms sham, fraud, pretence, imposture, hoax, fake, misrepresentation, blind, wile, artifice, trojan horse
verbˈbəNGkōˈbəŋkoʊ [with object]North American dated, informal Swindle or cheat. he didn't propose to be buncoed without a fight Example sentencesExamples - Not until then did it begin to be clear to me that the great mass of people gathered at Whatcom, as well as myself had been buncoed.
- The St. Regis tribe of Indians of Franklin County claim that they were buncoed by the last legislature, and are so incensed that an outbreak at the reservation is feared.
- The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.
- I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.
- They were not buncoed, and that water power would be worth many times what the investment was.
- I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way.
- ‘Hyperbole aside,’ says I, ‘do you know of any immediate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar or two except by applying to the Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’
- After the expenditure of the enormous sum of five hundred dollars (and we think the present day graduate who spent ten thousand dollars for a no better education has been badly buncoed), and twelve months of our valuable time, on March 25th 1885, we were turned loose on an unsuspecting public, a full fledged obstetrician.
- In America he is so busy that when he gets abroad he does not know what to do with his time, and in consequence can be easily buncoed.
- I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.
- The conduct of Mr. Springborn's department was always a matter of pride with the administration, and great was the consternation of his friends when the newspapers told a story one morning of how Mr. Springborn had been buncoed.
Synonyms deceive, trick, dupe, outwit, fool, delude, cheat, take in, bluff, hoax, mislead, misguide, lead on, defraud, double-cross, swindle, gull, finagle, get the better of
Origin Late 19th century: perhaps from Spanish banca, the name of a card game. |