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bunco-steerer

bunco-steerer noun: a swindler; a cheat or con-man.

Noun

bunco-steerer (plural bunco-steerers)

  1. (US, slang) A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
    • Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404

Forms of bunco-steerer

pluralbunco-steerers
alternative formbunko-steerer

Questions about bunco-steerer

What does bunco-steerer mean?
Bunco-steerer means a swindler; a cheat or con-man.
What part of speech is bunco-steerer?
Bunco-steerer is a noun.
What is the plural of bunco-steerer?
The plural of bunco-steerer is bunco-steerers.

Words near bunco-steerer in the dictionary

  1. Bunchrew
  2. bunchy
  3. bunchy top
  4. buncing
  5. bunco
  6. bunco-steerer
  7. bunco-steerers
  8. buncoed
  9. buncoes
  10. buncoing
  11. buncombe

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