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bunco-steerers

bunco-steerers is the plural of bunco-steerer.

Meaning of bunco-steerer

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

Questions about bunco-steerers

What is bunco-steerers the plural of?
Bunco-steerers is the plural of bunco-steerer.

Words near bunco-steerers in the dictionary

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

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