Synonyms: flimflam, sting, con, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, gyp, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game
Definition: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Similar words: rig, swindle, cheat
Definition: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Usage: that book is a fraud
Synonyms: con
Definition: an argument opposed to a proposal
Similar words: statement, argument
Definition: a fact or assertion offered as evidence that something is true
Usage: it was a strong argument that his hypothesis was true
Synonyms: con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
Definition: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
Synonyms: con, learn, memorise, memorize
Definition: commit to memory; learn by heart
Usage: Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Similar words: hit the books, study
Definition: learn by reading books
Usage: He is studying geology in his room; I have an exam next week; I must hit the books now
Synonyms: hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, con, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize
Definition: deprive of by deceit
Usage: He swindled me out of my inheritance; She defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
Similar words: rip off, cheat, chisel
Definition: deprive somebody of something by deceit
Usage: The con-man beat me out of $50; This salesman ripped us off!; we were cheated by their clever-sounding scheme; They chiseled me out of my money