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bunco game



NOUN
shell game
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NOUN
skin game
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"We'd been talking of a bunco game when you came up."

From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)

“But sometimes I have a sneaking notion that he thinks yet that Dick and I played some kind of a bunco game on him by doctoring the film.”

From Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour by Chadwick, Lester

Just as I know that case-knives are suspicious and that picking chestnuts may be a bunco game as easy as anything else.

From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne

"Seems to me like a bunco game," he muttered savagely.

From Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation by Baum, L. Frank (Lyman Frank)

Bunch of sharpers set about to rook me on a frame-up—a bunco game.

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames