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Definition of Bunco

bunco
Bunko Bun"ko, n. [Sf. Sp. banco bank, banca a sort of game at cards. Cf. Bank (in the commercial sense).] A kind of swindling game or scheme, by means of cards or by a sham lottery. [Written also bunco.] Bunko steerer, a person employed as a decoy in bunko. [Slang, U.S.]

Meaning of Bunco from wikipedia

- Bunco (also spelled bunko or bonko or buncko) is a dice game with twelve or more players, divided into groups of four, trying to score points while taking...
- Bunco Squad is a 1950 American crime film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and written by George Callahan. The film stars Robert Sterling, Joan Dixon, Ricardo...
- game, confidence scheme, ripoff, stratagem, finesse, grift, hustle, bunko, bunco, swindle, flimflam, gaffle, and bamboozle. The perpetrator is often referred...
- from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2009-06-19. Stewart Holbrook, "Bunco Kelly, King of the Crimps" in Wildmen, Wobblies and Whistle Punks. Corvallis:...
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- with elected officials and the police to control elections, gambling, and bunco gangs. The city also suffered a depression in 1893 after the crash of silver...
- Curse of the Black Widow, The Hunted Lady and Woman on the Run in 1977, Bunco (1978), and co-starred in Who Is the Black Dahlia? (1975), Look What's Happened...
- operated for more than 25 years in Denver, Colorado. His "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" was brought to justice in a famous trial in 1923. Blonger's gang set...
- criminal and swindler. He was regarded as one of the top confidence and bunco men in the United States during the late 19th century whose success was...
- biography of the noted swindler Joseph "Hungry Joe" Lewis, "King of the Bunco Men". The author writes: It was always a saying with Joe that there was...