con game

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con game

n. Slang

A confidence game.

con′fidence game`

a swindle in which the swindler, after gaining the victim's confidence, robs the victim by cheating at a gambling game, appropriating funds entrusted for investment, or the like. Also called, Brit.,con′fidence trick`.

[1855–60, Amer.]

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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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