English to Shona Meaning of bunco - bunco

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Definitions of bunco in English

Noun(1) a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
Verb(1) deprive of by deceit

Examples of bunco in English

(1) Because the producers hired police bunco squad members as consultants, the movie shows us all the nuts and bolts of the sorts of scams that can be run in a tent-revival format.(2) a bunco artist(3) But it's not just bunco artists who are suffering from this tightening of the purse strings.(4) Specially after I poked around and learned the Madame's qualifications for horoscope-readings consist of 19 convictions for fraud, bunco scams, and operating illegal ‘games of chance’ in Atlantic City.(5) he was out to make a buck using fraud or bunco(6) a bunco artist(7) I just can't stay in the room and see you buncoed that way.(8) The profiteers are very resourceful in buncoing Mr. Block.(9) The St. Regis tribe of Indians of Franklin County claim that they were buncoed by the last legislature, and are so incensed that an outbreak at the reservation is feared.(10) They were not buncoed , and that water power would be worth many times what the investment was.(11) I then buncoed the engineer of an English tramp steamer into selling me a 25-pound chunk of imported metal made by Mr. Babbitt himself and stamped with his name and coat of arms - but that lot didn't last long and I couldn't get any more of it.(12) I never mingle with the crowds that are being buncoed [sic] in the big department stores of Los Angeles.(13) The conduct of Mr. Springborn's department was always a matter of pride with the administration, and great was the consternation of his friends when the newspapers told a story one morning of how Mr. Springborn had been buncoed .(14) In America he is so busy that when he gets abroad he does not know what to do with his time, and in consequence can be easily buncoed .(15) ‘Hyperbole aside,’ says I, ‘do you know of any immediate system of buncoing the community out of a dollar or two except by applying to the Salvation Army or having a fit on Miss Helen Gould's doorsteps?’(16) After the expenditure of the enormous sum of five hundred dollars (and we think the present day graduate who spent ten thousand dollars for a no better education has been badly buncoed ), and twelve months of our valuable time, on March 25th 1885, we were turned loose on an unsuspecting public, a full fledged obstetrician.

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Synonyms

Noun

1. con ::

game

2. sting ::

ruma

3. flimflam ::

flimflam

4. confidence game ::

chivimbo mutambo

5. hustle ::

chinongova chipatapata

6. confidence trick ::

chivimbo minimini

8. gyp ::

gyp

9. con game ::

game mutambo

Verb

10. goldbrick ::

goldbrick

11. con ::

game

12. mulct ::

mulct

13. swindle ::

Vakabira vamwe

15. diddle ::

diddle

16. hornswoggle ::

hornswoggle

17. scam ::

vanonyengedza

18. nobble ::

nobble

19. defraud ::

biridzira

20. victimize ::

vanodzvinyirira

21. short-change ::

pfupi-chinja

22. gyp ::

gyp

23. rook ::

rook of

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