Bunco

Definition: Bunco

Bunco

Noun

1. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

Verb

1. 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".

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Date "bunco" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1893. (references)

19th Century Satire

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Synonyms: Bunco

Stealing

Plunder, pillage, rifle, sack, loot, ransack, spoil, spoliate, despoil, strip, sweep, gut, forage, levy blackmail, pirate, pickeer, maraud, lift cattle, poach; smuggle, run; badger; bail up, hold up, stick up; bunco, bunko, filibuster.

Bunco Busters (1955)

The Bunco Game at Lizardhead (1911)

Bunco On the Seashore (1899)

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Books

• Bunco Kelly and Other Yarns of Portland and Northwest or (reference)

• Don't Get Taken: Bunco & Bunkum Exposed How to Protect Yourself (reference)

• Hinny Winny Bunco (reference)

• The Bunco Book (reference)

  (more book examples)

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The American Burlesquers 15 beauties : Bunco bike. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Expression using "bunco": bunco game. Additional references.

Albanian

vrapim (bunko, run, running), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in, trick), gjepura (apple sauce, balderdash, baloney, blague, blether, boloney, bosh, buncombe, bunk, bunko, claptrap, crap, drivel, drool, eyewash, fiddledeedee, fiddle-faddle, fiddlesticks, flam, flannel, flapdoodle, flimflam, flubdub, footle, galimatias, gammon, hog-wash, hokum, humbug, jazz, jiggery pokery, moonshine, nonsense, palaver, piffle, poppycock, punk, rot, rubbish, stuff and nonsense, taradiddle, tosh, trash, twaddle, vacuity, waffle, wish-wash). (various references)

Bulgarian 

измама (bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, thimblerig, trickery, twist). (various references)

Greek 

απατηλό παιγνίδι. (various references)

Hungarian

szélhámosság (cole, fake, gouge, humbug, quackery, racket, roguery, scam, smart practice, swindle). (various references)

Pig Latin

uncobay.(various references)

Portuguese

engano (blunder, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, error, fault, feint, fraud, gag, gammon, hoax, imposition, invention, inveracity, mare's-nest, miscalculation, miss, mistake, misunderstanding, overreach, sham, slip, take-in, tripping). (various references)

Russian 

обман (bunko, cheat, circumvention, cozenage, cram, deceit, deception, dissimulation, do, double cross, double dealing, false pretence, false pretences, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudging, gag, gammon, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, hanky-panky, have on, have-on, hokum, humbug, imposture, jugglery, leasing, leg pull, legerdemain, lie, lurk, overreach, skin-game, spoof, swindle, take in, take-in, trick, trickeries, trickery, wile). (various references)

Swedish

bedrägeri (buncos, cheat, cozenage, deceit, deception, do, double cross, dupery, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, gammon, gyp, humbug, illusion, imposture, jugglery, knavery, racket, sell, swindle, take in, take-in). (various references)

Turkish

kazıklamak (cheat, chisel, clip, do smb. brown, fleece, fob, fob smb. off, gouge, have smb. on, jew, Nick, overcharge, put it on, put it over on, rook, rush, sell, skin, soak, sting, stuff smb., take for a ride), dolandırmak (bilk, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do down, do in, double cross, flimflam, gammon, gold brick, gull, gyp, have, hornswoggle, jockey, Nick, nobble, racketeer, rook, rotate, sell smb. a gold brick, sell smb. a pup, spoof, swindle, take in). (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự lừa đảo (cross, deceifulness, deceit, faith, gyp, imposture, rig, swindle), sự gian lận (fraud, unfairness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bunco": buncoed, buncoes, buncoing, buncombe, buncombes, buncos. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: unco.

-2 letters: bun, cob, con, cub, nob, nub.

-3 letters: bo, no, nu, on, un.

+1 letter: bonduc, bounce, bouncy, buncos, cobnut.

+2 letters: bonducs, bounced, bouncer, bounces, bubonic, buncoed, buncoes, cobnuts, umbonic, unblock.

+3 letters: bouncers, bouncier, bouncily, bouncing, bronchus, buncoing, buncombe, buoyance, buoyancy, icebound, subsonic, subtonic, sunblock, unblocks, unbouncy, uncombed.

+4 letters: abduction, binocular, bounciest, bronchium, buckthorn, buncombes, buoyances, colubrine, columbine, concubine, connubial, countable, countably, curbstone, incubator, nonpublic, obscurant, obscuring, rockbound, subcolony, subcounty, subdeacon, submicron, subtonics, sunblocks, unblocked.