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con game

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con game
n. Slang
A confidence game.
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Noun1.con game - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, confidence game, confidence trick, 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"


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