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1. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
   - bunco game [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal], bunko game [N. Amer, informal], con [informal], confidence trick, confidence game, con game [informal], hustle [informal], sting [informal], flimflam [informal]

1. Deprive of by deceit
   "He buncoed me out of my inheritance";
   - victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick [N. Amer, informal], nobble [Brit, informal], diddle [informal], defraud, scam [informal], mulct, hornswoggle [N. Amer, informal], short-change, con [informal], victimise [Brit], grift [N. Amer, informal], ream [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal]

Derived forms: buncoes, buncoed, buncoing, buncos

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

Encyclopedia: Bunco