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Meanings of bunco in English
A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
Usage of bunco in English
1
This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen.
2
I won't combine it with being a bunco steerer on the side.
3
Because of your gestures I believe you are trying to bunco this court.
4
Five thousand for a claim on that damned moose-pasture is bunco.
5
Let him bunco me into putting through that dam for him!
6
I thought then that somebody was trying to bunco Mrs.
7
And the other is to the bunco squad in Miami.
8
No room there for little sharpers' tricks and bunco games.
9
You don't know the beastly cleverness of those bunco chaps.
10
Now, we've got to go over there for our first practice as bunco men.
11
They judged by the calibre of the men interested, and branded it a bunco game.
12
How this came about was explained by the bunco.
13
Other owners wandered around trying to bunco men into buying them out for a song.
14
Slap-up offices; thousands of letters a day full of postal orders; shutters up suddenly-andbunco!
15
Damn it, I'm sick of the bunco game, Bat-
16
Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously, honoring and respecting it.
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