bunco

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bunco

/ˈbʌŋkəʊ/

Rhymes with -ʌŋkəʊ

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Reportedly from Spanish banca, a card game.

noun buncos · buncoes · bunko

US, countable, slang, uncountable A swindle or confidence trick.
uncountable A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
countable, uncountable A brigand. When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.

verb buncos · buncoing · buncoed · bunko

US, intransitive, slang, transitive To swindle (someone). They felt very sorry (so they said) for the poor old eleventh company having been buncoed into taking such an awful pack of useless recruits.

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@misc{bunco_2026,
  title = {bunco},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bunco},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}