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/kˈɑnfədəns geɪm/ Listen

Confidence game

noun

A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property. Synonyms: bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con, con game, confidence trick, flimflam, gyp, hustle, sting.

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"Confidence game" Quotes from Famous Books

... difference if the miners once get it into their heads that the girls are being used to put over a confidence game on them," Helen argued authoritatively. "Miners are peculiar people, especially if they are lead by radical leaders of aggressive purpose. They believe that they are a badly misused set, turning out the wealth of the wealthy, who repay them by holding them in contempt, keeping their wages down ...

— Campfire Girls in the Allegheny Mountains - or, A Christmas Success against Odds • Stella M. Francis

... and a little inquiry set on foot will show where the crook came from. If, then, in the course of a few days, a complaint is lodged with the agency people from the town where the suspected party has been that a big confidence game has been played, or that a forged or raised check has been worked on some bank or other institution, it is not very hard to imagine that the thief who was recently so flush is the ...

— Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations • William Howe

Words linked to "Confidence game" : cheat, bunco game, sting operation, swindle, rig, con