bunco game

Example Sentences

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

From Out of the Primitive by Bennet, Robert Ames

They were ready and eager to bite at any sort of bunco game I saw fit to play upon them.

From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter

They got the Borough President of Manhattan, the President of the Board of Aldermen, the Register and a lot of lesser places, it was the greatest bunco game of modern times.

From Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon by Plunkitt, George Washington

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

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

Then there were the fools who took the organized bunco game seriously, honoring and respecting it.

From Burning Daylight by London, Jack