v
(transitive, rare) to cheat; cheat out of
n
(economics) The time between when a confidence trickster has stolen money from a unsuspecting person and when that person realizes the money has been stolen.
v
(transitive, archaic) To evade, elude.
v
(UK, Ireland, informal, 1960s) To inveigle by persuasion.
n
(slang) A false accusation, or an injustice, especially one that leads to imprisonment.
v
(transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
v
To trick (someone) into giving something up; to unfairly deprive someone of (something).
n
(obsolete) An escheater.
v
(Australia, informal, intransitive) To attempt to deceive or impose upon (someone).
v
(idiomatic) To manipulate accounting information, especially illegally.
n
Synonym of Faustian bargain
v
(transitive) To cheat or swindle.
v
To achieve or obtain (something) by complicated or deceitful methods; to finagle, to wangle.
v
To alter financial records in order to commit or conceal fraud, tax evasion or theft.
v
(figuratively) To manipulate in order to gain something for oneself.
v
(transitive, intransitive) To cheat or swindle; to use crafty, deceitful methods. (often with "out of" preceding the object)
v
(transitive) To con or trick (someone) out of money.
v
To swindle or bully (someone)
v
(transitive, slang) To swindle.
v
To act aggressively toward others.
v
(archaic, thieves' cant) To deceive someone into handing over money or valuables by evoking sympathy.
v
(transitive) To cheat or impose upon; in particular, to charge an unfairly or unreasonably high price.
v
(UK, slang) To betray by informing on.
v
(transitive, US, slang) To obtain illegally, as by con game.
v
(US, informal) To wheedle or swindle
v
(transitive) To trick or deceive.
v
(transitive) To manipulate deceptively.
n
Alternative spelling of killjoy [A person who is anti-fun, or prevents others from having fun.]
adj
(figuratively) Having nimble fingers, especially for stealing or picking pockets (pickpocketing), given to thievery or shoplifting.
v
(idiomatic) To ridicule; to make fun of.
n
(UK dialectal) Pilfering; skulking.
v
To obtain something by taking advantage of the charity of someone or something.
n
(law, UK) Acronym of making off without payment. [(UK, law, formal) The criminal offence of bilking.]
v
To swindle (someone) out of money.
v
(idiomatic) To play the devil; to make mischief.
v
Synonym of play the devil with
v
To control or manipulate someone, especially by playing on their emotions.
v
Synonym of play the devil with
v
(dated) Synonym of play the devil with
v
Synonym of play the devil with
v
Synonym of play the devil with
n
(historical) Synonym of fast and loose (“fraudulent game”)
n
(obsolete) One who contends for a prize; a prizefighter; a challenger.
v
To exploit an unfair advantage; to cheat; to swindle.
n
(naval slang) Acquiring something dishonestly; scrounging or filching.
v
(very rare) To respond to a bluff with another bluff.
v
(transitive) To manipulate something dishonestly for personal gain or discriminatory purposes.
v
(slang, dated) To trick a shopman into giving too much change.
v
(idiomatic) To steal, cheat or swindle. Especially to charge an exorbitant or unfair rate.
v
(transitive) To deceive someone by pretending to be weak, or (card games) by pretending to have a weak hand.
v
(slang) To trick, cheat, or manipulate someone.
v
(transitive) To imitate someone or something for the purpose of satirical humour.
v
To play a trick on someone.
v
(transitive) To procure by petty fraud and trickery; to obtain by mean solicitation.
v
To take dishonestly or unfairly, to steal from or cheat out of.
n
A thief who steals without being noticed and without using violence.
adj
(colloquial, humorous) Most inclined to steal; most thievish.
adj
(of a person) Possessing the behavioral trait of stealing, especially of engaging in petty theft while handling money or goods.
v
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To deceive, cheat; betray.
v
(transitive) To defraud.
v
(colloquial) To defraud; to rip off.
n
(obsolete) A lurking or skulking.
v
To work out, procure, or extract, usually by processes involving subterfuge, diligence, manipulation, or coaxing.
n
Synonym of thimblerigging (“the act of cheating (someone) in a thimblerig game, or by trickery”)
v
(transitive, dated) To impose unfairly; to palm off.
v
(transitive, obsolete) To insnare; entrap; deceive by false suggestions.
v
To swindle or defraud someone.
v
(transitive) To obtain through deceitful or manipulative methods.
v
(derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone, often by not paying a debt, especially a gambling debt.
v
(US politics) To accept bribes from multiple parties at once, with the intent of letting down one or more of them.
v
(dated, slang, US, Canada, sometimes offensive) to cheat, trick or swindle somebody; to misrepresent something
v
(US, thru-hiker slang) To persuade someone to give you food or other favors without actually begging.
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