confidence trick (redirected from Confidence tricks)

confidence trick

Noun

a swindle in which the swindler gains the victim's trust in order to cheat him or her

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

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 → timo

confidence trick n → escroquerie f

confidence trick confidence n → Schwindel m

confidence trick n → truffa