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bunco

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5 lettersPronunciation /ˈbʌŋkəʊ/Part of speech noun, verbSorted bcnouStarts with BEnds with O0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

Word origin

Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.

Used in a sentence

  • When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.
  • They felt very sorry (so they said) for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.
  • "They want a man who will bunko the ignorant patients and get the money."

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