Bunco Game

  

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Bunco Game

Definition: Bunco Game

Bunco Game

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Bunco Game

Synonyms: bunco (n), bunko (n), bunko game (n), con (n), con game (n), confidence game (n), confidence trick (n), flimflam (n), gyp (n), hustle (n), sting (n). (additional references)

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Modern Usage: Bunco Game

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Bunco Game at Lizardhead (1911)

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Bunco Game

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

bunco game

20

bunco game rule

5

bunco game law

3

bunco game idea

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Bunco Game

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-g-m-n-o-u"

-3 letters: acumen, bagmen, beacon, bemoan, bounce, cabmen, cangue, cubage, uncage.

-4 letters: agone, among, bacon, banco, beano, began, begum, begun, bogan, bunco, cameo, canoe, comae, combe, conga, conge, gambe, genoa, genom, genua, gnome, goban, guaco, guano, gumbo, macon, mange, mango, mungo, ocean, omega, ounce.

-5 letters: acme, acne, aeon, agon, ague, ambo, amen, bane, bang, beam.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Bunco Game


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

42 75 6E 63 6F      47 61 6D 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000010 01110101 01101110 01100011 01101111 00100000 01000111 01100001 01101101 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#66 &#117 &#110 &#99 &#111 &#32 &#71 &#97 &#109 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0042 0075 006E 0063 006F      0047 0061 006D 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3687806981241677971

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Expressions: Internet
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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