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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bunko \Bun"ko\, n. [Sf. Sp banco bank, banca a sort of game at
cards. Cf {Bank} (in the commercial sense).]
A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a
sham lottery. [Written also {bunco}.]
{Bunko steerer}, a person employed as a decoy in bunko.
[Slang, U.S.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
bunco
n : a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a
person to buy worthless property [syn: {bunco game}, {bunko},
{bunko game}, {con}, {confidence game}, {con game}, {gyp},
{hustle}, {sting}, {flimflam}]
v : deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"
[syn: {swindle}, {rook}, {nobble}, {diddle}, {defraud}, {mulct},
{gyp}, {con}]
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