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confidence trick US and Canadian, confidence game

a swindle involving money, goods, etc., in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler Informal shortened forms con trick (US and Canadian) con game

confidence trick - First a swindle in which the victim was persuaded to entrust money or valuables to the swindler.

See also related terms for swindle.

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Noun

confidence trick - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property

bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, sting

sting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)

swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

Translations

confidence trick n → truffa

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