con game

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbuncobunco gamebunkobunko gameconconfidence trickconfidence gamehustlestingflimflam

   Broaderswindle

   Narrowersting operation

Questions about con game

What does con game mean?

con game means "a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property".

What is another word for con game?

Close synonyms include bunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is con game a common word?

con game is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.