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Textual thesaurus for "con"

(noun) flimflam, sting, con game, confidence game, confidence trick, hustle, gyp, bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game

a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property


(noun) convict, inmate, yard bird, yardbird

a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison


(verb) learn, memorise, memorize

commit to memory; learn by heart

Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?


(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, scam, rook, diddle, defraud, swindle, mulct, nobble, victimize

deprive of by deceit

He swindled me out of my inheritance; She defrauded the customers who trusted her; the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change