Bunko

Definition: Bunko

Bunko

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: Bunko

Deceiver

Liar; (lie; ); story-teller, perjurer, false witness, menteur a triple etage, Scapin; bunko steerer, carpetbagger, capper, faker, fraud, four flusher, horse coper, ringer, spieler, straw bidder.

Deception

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Impose upon, practice upon, play upon, put upon, palm off on, palm upon, foist upon; snatch a verdict; bluff off, bluff; bunko, four flush, gum, spoof, stuff (a ballot box).

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.

Thief

Spoiler, depredator, pillager, marauder; harpy, shark, land shark, falcon, mosstrooper, bushranger, Bedouin, brigand, freebooter, bandit, thug, dacoit; pirate, corsair, viking, Paul Jones, buccaneer, buccanier; piqueerer, pickeerer; rover, ranger, privateer, filibuster; rapparee, wrecker, picaroon; smuggler, poacher; abductor, badger, bunko man, cattle thief, chor, contrabandist, crook, hawk, holdup man, hold-up, jackleg, kidnaper, rustler, cattle rustler, sandbagger, sea king, skin, sneak thief, spieler, strong-arm man.

Crosswords: Bunko

The Hero of Bunko Hill (1917)

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Books

• Basho-o no shozo hyakuei : Muboan Bunko zo (reference)

• Dairi meisho hyakushu chu : Sochiku Bunko zo (reference)

• Keirinshu chu : Sochiku Bunko zo (reference)

• Kokuritsu Kokkai Toshokan shozo kojin bunko ten : kotenseki tankyu no kiseki : tenjikai mokuroku : Showa 58-nen 10-gatsu 19-nichi--28-nichi (reference)

• Reza bunko (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Bunko Kanazawa: Japan AV Girl of Y2K (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

Expressions using "bunko": bunko game ♦ bunko man ♦ bunko steerer. Additional references.

Albanian

vrapim (bunco, run, running), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, 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, bunco, buncombe, bunk, 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 (bunco, 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)

Japanese Kanji 

中公文庫 (Chuukou bunko). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ちゅう�"うぶ�"�" (Chuukou bunko). (various references)

Pig Latin

unkobay.(various references)

Portuguese

farsa (burlesque, farce, lark). (various references)

Russian 

обман (bunco, 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)

Serbo-Croatian

koještarija (baloney, bilge, buncombe, bunk, cobbler, crap, humbug, moonshine, nonsense, rigmarole, rot). (various references)

Swedish

lurendrejeri (bunkos, flimflam, fraud). (various references)

Ukrainian

обман (bam, bamboozle, beguilement, bilk, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvention, cozenage, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, foist, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gammon, gouge, guile, hanky panky, hoax, imposture, juggle, jugglery, lie, overreach, phoney, phony, pretence, pretense, ruse, sell, sham, swindle, trickery, victimization, wile). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "bunko": bunkoed, bunkoes, bunkoing, bunkos. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: bonk, bunk, knob.

-2 letters: bun, kob, nob, nub.

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

+1 letter: bohunk, bunkos.

+2 letters: bohunks, bunkoed, bunkoes, unblock, unbroke.

+3 letters: bunkoing, sunblock, unblocks, unbroken.

+4 letters: buckthorn, bunkhouse, deskbound, keybutton, outbaking, rockbound, sunblocks, unbeknown, unblocked, unbookish.

+5 letters: background, buckthorns, bunkhouses, buttonhook, keybuttons, knockabout, mountebank, outbarking, outbulking, subkingdom, subnetwork, unblocking, unknowable, unworkable.