confidence game

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noun

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
• Syn:
bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con,
confidence trick, con game, gyp, hustle, sting, flimflam
• Derivationally related forms:
flim-flam (for: flimflam), gyp (for: gyp), con (for: con), bunco (for: bunco)
• Hypernyms:
swindle, cheat, rig
• Hyponyms:
sting operation