nnoun.acta complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)Hypernyms:bunco bunco game bunko bunko game con con game confidence game confidence trick flimflam hustle sting
Inherited Hypernyms:sting operationbuncoswindlefraudcrimeoffensetransgressionwrongdoingactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity
nnoun.actoperation designed to catch a person committing a criminal actSynset:sting
Examples:- the police conducted a sting operation
Hypernyms:operation
Inherited Hypernyms:stingoperationactivityacteventpsychological featureabstractionentity