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Definition: Confidence Trick |
Confidence TrickNoun1. 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: Confidence TrickSynonyms: bunco (n), bunco game (n), bunko (n), bunko game (n), con (n), con game (n), confidence game (n), flimflam (n), gyp (n), hustle (n), sting (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
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. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Confidence Trick (1926) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "confidence trick"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Betrug (amounted, amounted to, bamboozlement, cheating, deceit, deception, delusiveness, fiddle, fooling, fraud, imposture, scam, swindle). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | svindli (confidence game, dupery, fraud, gyp, spoof, swindle), beugratás (con game, confidence game, have on, hoax, take in). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 取り込み詐欺 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | とり"みさぎ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | molteyrys (cheating, deceit, deception, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, insidiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | onfidencecay icktray conto do vigário. (various references) обманным путем (confidence game, craftily, on the crook). (various references) prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trick, trumpery). (various references) estafa (bubble, cheating, con, fiddle, fraud, gyp, racket, ramp, rip off, roguery, swindle, trick, twist). (various references) bondfångeri, båg (hoax, hustle, swiz, swizz). (various references) dolandırıcılık (charlatanry, cheat, confidence game, deceit, deceitfulness, do, double dealing, frame up, fraud, grift, jugglery, knavery, plant, racket, ramp, roguery, skin game, swindle, take in), üçkâğıtçılık (confidence game, highway robbery, indirection, knavery, shell game, skulduggery, swindling, trick, trickery, wiliness). (various references) sự lừa (confidence game). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-c-d-e-e-f-i-i-k-n-n-o-r-t" | |
-3 letters: noncertified. | |
-4 letters: coincidence, reinfection. | |
-5 letters: coincident, concentric, concertini, confidence, dentifrice, fictioneer, renotified. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Modern 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Anagrams 6. Bibliography |
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