Usage of "bunco game"

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A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

Usage of bunco game in English

They judged by the calibre of the men interested, and branded it a bunco game. 
 Revolution, and Other Essays 

Damn it, I'm sick of the bunco game, Bat- 
 The Freebooters of the Wilderness 

Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously, honoring and respecting it. 
 Burning Daylight 

Society, as organized, was a vast bunco game. 
 Burning Daylight 

I don't want to run any bunco game. 
 Vandover and the Brute 

What sort of a bunco game is this? 
 Just Patty 

They were easy game for the others, who saw clearly and knew the bunco game for what it was. 
 Burning Daylight 

They were ready and eager to bite at any sort of bunco game I saw fit to play upon them. 
 The Black Wolf Pack 

This is one of the greatest bunco games ever practiced upon workingmen. 
 The Red Conspiracy 

Bunch of sharpers set about to rook me on a frame-up- abuncogame. 
 Out of the Primitive 

No room there for little sharpers' tricks and bunco games. 
 Burning Daylight 

"Look here, Selwyn," he broke out, "do you like this bunco game?" 
 The Rules of the Game 

"I thought perhaps you had rented it for your bunco game," retorted he. 
 The Price She Paid 

"We'd been talking of a bunco game when you came up." 
 The Freebooters of the Wilderness 

"Well, Strout ought to know what a good bunco game is," said Quincy. 
 Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks / A Picture of New ... 

"I don't like the methods," replied Selwyn promptly; "but you are mistaken when you think it's a bunco game. 
 The Rules of the Game 

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Meanings of bunco game in English