Chouse

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v. t.	1.	To cheat, trick, defraud; - followed by of, or out of; as, to chouse one out of his money. [imp. & p. p. Choused ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chousing.] The undertaker of the afore-cited poesy hath choused your highness. - Landor.
n.	1.	One who is easily cheated; a tool; a simpleton; a gull.
	2.	A trick; sham; imposition.
	3.	A swindler.

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chouse - defeat someone through trickery or deceit

chicane, jockey, cheat, shaft, screw

beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"

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