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Textual thesaurus for "scam"

(noun) cozenage

a fraudulent business scheme


(verb) hornswoggle, goldbrick, gip, gyp, bunco, short-change, rook, con, 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