Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bunco"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at
cards. Cf. {Bank} (in the commercial sense).]
A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a
sham lottery. [Written also {bunco}.]

{Bunko steerer}, a person employed as a decoy in bunko.
[Slang, U.S.]

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

bunco
n : a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a
person to buy worthless property [syn: {bunco game}, {bunko},
{bunko game}, {con}, {confidence trick}, {confidence
game}, {con game}, {gyp}, {hustle}, {sting}, {flimflam}]
v : deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {goldbrick}, {nobble}, {diddle},
{defraud}, {scam}, {mulct}, {gyp}, {con}]


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