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Bunko game

noun
1.
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.  Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting.






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"Bunko game" Quotes from Famous Books



... Atlantic City there is said to be a fine display of servant-girl and ladies-maid aigrettes. In New York and New Jersey, in Pennsylvania for everything save the sale of heron and egret plumes (a privilege obtained by a bunko game), in Massachusetts, and in many other of our States, the wild-birds'-plumage millinery business is dead. Two years ago, when the New York legislature refused to repeal the Dutcher law, the Millinery Association asserted, and brought a cloud of witnesses ...
— Our Vanishing Wild Life - Its Extermination and Preservation • William T. Hornaday



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