Confidence Trick

  

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Confidence Trick

Definition: Confidence Trick

Confidence Trick

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: Confidence Trick

Synonyms: 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)

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Synonyms within Context: Confidence Trick

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Modern Usage: Confidence Trick

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

The Confidence Trick (1926)

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

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Modern Translation: Confidence Trick

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

   

Portuguese

  

conto do vigário. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

обманным путем (confidence game, craftily, on the crook). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

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)

   

Spanish

  

estafa (bubble, cheating, con, fiddle, fraud, gyp, racket, ramp, rip off, roguery, swindle, trick, twist). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

bondfångeri, båg (hoax, hustle, swiz, swizz). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự lừa (confidence game). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: Confidence Trick

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.

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

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Usage: Modern
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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