Main entry: 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
Main entry: con
Definition: an argument opposed to a proposal
Main entry: con, convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird
Definition: a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison
Main entry: con, learn, memorise, memorize
Definition: commit to memory; learn by heart
Usage: Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?
Main entry: 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
Main entry: con
Definition: in opposition to a proposition, opinion, etc.
Usage: much was written pro and con