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1. A complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)
    
2. Operation designed to catch a person committing a criminal act
   "the police conducted a sting operation";
   - sting [informal]

Derived forms: sting operations

Type of: bunco [N. Amer, informal], bunco game [N. Amer, informal], bunko [N. Amer, informal], bunko game [N. Amer, informal], con [informal], con game [informal], confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam [informal], hustle [informal], operation, sting [informal]

Encyclopedia: Sting operation