swindle

swindle
v
1. cheat, defraud, fleece, rook, Sl. clip, gull, Archaic. chouse; overcharge, Sl. soak, Inf. gyp, Sl. take [s.o.] to the cleaners, Sl. chisel, Sl. gaff, pluck, mulct; victimize, exploit, play on or upon, take advantage of, Inf. diddle, Inf. do, do out of, Sl. burn; delude, deceive, beguile, mislead, Inf. take [s.o.] for a ride, hoodwink; pull the wool over [s.o.'s] eyes, cozen, bluff, take in, bamboozle, bilk, Sl. hornswoggle, cully, Inf. buffalo, Inf. finagle, Sl. con, pull a fast one, Inf. flimflam, Sl. flam, Sl. sting, Sl. screw, Sl. put across; trick, thimblerig, spoof, outwit, Inf. euchre out, jockey, overreach, circumvent, get around, put one over on, fob [s.t.] off on [s.o.].
n
2. fraud, sharp practice, trickery, thimblerigging, double-dealing, skin game, cozenage, Law. barratry, Canon. Law. obreption, Scots Law. subreption, Archaic. covin; chicanery, knavery, Inf. hanky-panky, Inf. racket, the old army game, Sl. monkey business, Sl. funny business; imposture, imposition, humbug.
3. wile, ruse, sham, shuck, trick, deception, chicane, hoax, subterfuge, artifice, stratagem, Sl. scam, Scot. brogue; cheat, Sl. gyp, Inf. ripoff; dirty deal, dirty trick.

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