bunco

noun

1. (US, countable, slang, uncountable)A swindle or confidence trick.
2. (uncountable)A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
3. (countable, uncountable)A brigand.

   “When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.”

   “Furthermore, he knew of the O.M. and of how the O.M. was the smoking gun and his outrageous guilt was the key to bringing down every one of the underhanded and dishonest buncoes that were running extreme and eopidemic in Edmonton back then.”

verb

1. (US, intransitive, slang, transitive)To swindle (someone).

   “They felt very sorry (so they said) for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.”

   “"They want a man who will bunko the ignorant patients and get the money."”