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(archaic, thieves' cant) A scam designed to evoke sympathy in order to acquire money.
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(archaic, British slang) A scam; a swindle; a sham.
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(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Alternative form of Abraham sham [(obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) Feigned sickness or distress.]
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(informal) One who is always ready to provide excuses for shortcomings, errors, or other difficulties.
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A secret language or conventional slang peculiar to thieves, tramps and vagabonds.
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An extortion scheme in which the victim is tricked into a compromising position (typically a sexual encounter) and then blackmailed.
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(slang, archaic) An imposition; a cheat; a hoax.
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(obsolete, informal) A cheat, hoax, or imposition.
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One who bamboozles; a trickster.
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(slang) To bamboozle; to deceive with nonsense.
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(Caribbean, Jamaica) A scammer.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) A hoax, a humbug, something that is not genuine, a rigged or unfair sporting contest.
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Alternative form of begunk [(transitive, dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To befool; deceive; balk; jilt.]
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(transitive, rare, UK dialectal) To play a trick on; trick or befool.
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(transitive, rare) To call (someone) a knave.
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(Britain, informal) A means of obtaining something by trick or deception.
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(Manglish, Singlish) To give false information intentionally; to lie; to deceive
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A false charge made by an animal as a threat.
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(transitive) To deceive (someone) in order to convince them to give up.
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One engaged in booming the market or a political candidate for office; one who works up a boom.
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(obsolete) To fool; to trick.
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(intransitive) To strut or show off like a boulevardier.
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(UK, slang, obsolete) A sham business that swindles people.
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A confidence trick in which the victim is falsely diagnosed with a curse or other ailment that can supposedly only be cured by the trickster.
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(obsolete, slang) A confidence trick, or deceptive speech by a swindler.
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(US, slang) A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
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(archaic, Yorkshire) To act in concert with intent to defraud; to play unfairly.
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(archaic) A dishonest person; a rogue; a cheat.
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A malicious trickster; a fake person, especially one who deceives for personal profit.
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(obsolete) A sort of low-quality bread.
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(colloquial, idiomatic, transitive) To be unfaithful to, especially in a romantic relationship.
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(childish) Someone who cheats.
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(obsolete) A flatterer or sycophant.
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(obsolete) A simpleton; a dupe.
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Someone who conducts a confidence game: who defrauds someone after winning his trust, a con man or con artist.
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The act by which something is crooked.
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A person who diddles; a cheat or swindler.
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(obsolete, UK, slang) An act of swindling; a fraud or deception.
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A trick, evasion or wile. (Now mainly in the expression tax dodge.)
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(archaic) A villain or crook, especially in French contexts.
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To cheat or deceive (someone).
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(by extension) A person who makes false promises
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(informal) To cheat or swindle; to commit fraud.
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A person who finagles; a cheat or swindler
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(obsolete) Someone who distracts the target of a thief; a confidence trickster.
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Clipping of flim-flam (“confidence trick”). [Misinformation; bunkum; false information presented as true.]
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A swindler; a con artist.
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(US, finance, slang) One easily deceived in buying stocks; an inexperienced and unwary jobber.
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(transitive, archaic) To cheat, to deceive, to trick, to take in, to impose upon someone.
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(obsolete) Cheating; deception.
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The act of something being fudged, altered so as to hide a flaw or uncertainty.
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(archaic, UK, colloquial, by extension) Alternative form of fullam (“sham”) [(archaic, UK, slang) A false die; a die intentionally loaded, or unevenly weighted, so that it always rolls a specific number.]
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(colloquial, dated, transitive) To deceive; to lie plausibly to.
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Alternative form of gazump [(Britain) To swindle; to extort.]
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(Britain) To swindle; to extort.
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Alternative form of gazump [(Britain) To swindle; to extort.]
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(rare) Alternative spelling of gazump [(Britain) To swindle; to extort.]
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(US, slang, dated) A swindler.
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(obsolete) To cheat or cozen; to overreach.
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(informal, originally Canada, US) A con artist; someone who pulls confidence games; a swindler, scammer, huckster, hustler, and/or charlatan.
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(slang) A cheating trick; a fraud.
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(derogatory, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle.
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(African-American Vernacular, slang, intransitive) To show off; to strut.
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Alternative form of honeyfuggle [(US, informal) To wheedle or swindle]
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(transitive, slang) To deceive or trick.
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The behaviour of a huckster.
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To hawk; to promote, especially in a pushy or deceptive manner.
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The activities of a huckster.
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(slang) To play a trick on someone, to cheat, to swindle, to deceive.
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(dated) One who humbugs; a cheat or swindler.
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(US) A shyster or con artist; a gambler who cheats; a generally dishonest or reprehensible person.
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(uncountable) The process or act of jebaiting.
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(slang) to deceive, swindle, trick
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(transitive, intransitive) To deceive by trick or artifice.
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(transitive) To deceive or outmaneuver, using a feint.
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(informal) To build or use a kludge.
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(transitive, UK dialectal) To cheat; befool.
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(idiomatic) Interference (usually in military matters) by politicians.
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(dated) One who mafficks, or celebrates boisterously.
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(transitive, Trinidad and Tobago) To dupe or deceive.
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Alternative form of micro-cheat [To show signs of attraction or focus on someone other than one's romantic partner.]
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(archaic) Alternative form of mountebank [One who sells dubious medicines.]
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To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.
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(England, regional) To cheat, deceive.
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An accomplice who locates a mark to be swindled by a confidence trickster.
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One who or that which outstrips.
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(obsolete) To palm off by fraud.
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(slang, African-American Vernacular) To trifle with or be frivolous concerning.
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To act dishonestly or unfairly.
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Synonym of play the devil with
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(transitive, slang) To be unfaithful to a lover; to cheat; used with on.
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An instance of working in a nonserious manner; an instance of playing around.
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Alternative form of poke borack [(intransitive, Australia, often with "at") To impart false information in an attempt to mislead.]
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Someone who cannot take a joke.
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(slang) Something unfairly expensive, a rip-off.
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Alternative form of rogues' gallery [A set of pictures of convicted or suspected criminals used in law enforcement investigations to help witnesses identify suspects.]
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A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
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(obsolete, UK, dialect) To play mean tricks; to act shabbily.
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Alternative form of sham Abraham [(idiomatic, obsolete, UK, thieves' cant) To pretend sickness or insanity.]
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(slang) A cheat or fraudster.
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Alternative form of shyster [Someone who acts in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.]
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(intransitive) To act in a disreputable, unethical, or unscrupulous way, especially in the practice of law and politics.
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The act of cheating a person.
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(archaic) To deceive; to cheat; to trick.
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(informal) A sneaky person.
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(crime, obsolete) An accomplice of a thief or criminal acting as bait.
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A gullible or easily cheated person.
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A fraudster who operates a thimblerig game.
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(transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To cheat (someone) by trickery.
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A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
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(transitive or reflexive) To gain something for oneself by clever or devious means.
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