confidence trick

Questions about confidence trick

What does confidence trick mean?

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

What is another word for confidence trick?

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 confidence trick a common word?

confidence trick is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.