1. A scheme to defraud by gaining someone's confidence
   "The couple fell victim to a bunco and lost their life savings";
   - bunco game [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal], bunko game [N. Amer, informal], con [informal], confidence trick [Brit], confidence game [N. Amer], con game [N. Amer, informal], hustle [informal], sting [informal], flimflam [informal], con trick [Brit, informal]

1. Deprive of by deceit
   "The con artist buncoed the elderly couple out of their life savings";
   - swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer, informal], diddle [informal], defraud, scam [informal], mulct, hornswoggle [N. Amer, informal], short-change, con [informal], ream [N. Amer, informal], grift [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal], fleece [informal]

Derived forms: buncoing, buncoed, buncoes, buncos

Type of: cheat, chisel [informal], fraud, rig [archaic], rip off [informal], swindle

Encyclopedia: Bunco