Synonyms for con game
- Ponzi
- bait-and-switch
- boiler room
- bunco game
- bunko
- con
- con job
- confidence trick
- flimflam
- hustle
- racket
- rip-off
- shell game
- skin game
- sting
- swindle
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You've been took in, you've bit on a con game like a hungry pike.
They may work a con game on some of the agents and dispatchers, but they get over the road with the local.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR CON GAME
cheat
nountrick- artifice
- baloney
- bamboozlement
- bill of goods
- bunco
- chicanery
- con
- con game
- cover up
- cozening
- deceit
- deception
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dodge
- double-dealing
- fake
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- fix
- flimflam
- frame
- fraud
- gyp
- hanky-panky
- hoax
- hoaxing
- humbug
- hustle
- imposture
- jazz
- jive
- plant
- put-on
- racket
- rip-off
- run around
- scam
- sell
- shady deal
- sham
- shell game
- snow job
- spoof
- sting
- stunt
- swindle
- trickery
- whitewash
- wrong
collusion
nounsecret understanding, often with intent to defrauddeception
nountrick- artifice
- bilk
- bluff
- catch
- cheat
- chicane
- con
- con game
- confidence game
- cover-up
- crock
- decoy
- device
- dodge
- fallacy
- fast one
- fast shuffle
- feint
- fib
- fraud
- gimmick
- hoax
- hogwash
- hustle
- illusion
- imposture
- jive
- lie
- malarkey
- mare's-nest
- pretext
- ride
- ruse
- scam
- sham
- shift
- shuck
- snare
- snow job
- stall
- sting
- story
- stratagem
- subterfuge
- swindle
- trap
- trick
- whitewash
- wile
- wrinkle
grift
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