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buncoes

buncoes is the plural of bunco.

Meaning of bunco

Noun

bunco (countable and uncountable, plural buncos or buncoes)

  1. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
  2. (uncountable) A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women in the United States at the beginning of the 21st century.
  3. A brigand.
    • When they fall into the hands of the Buncoes, they sometimes do; at others, they are merely robbed or held to ransom for a time and then released again.1891, “Buncoed”, in Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Arts, W & R Chambers, page 781

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Questions about buncoes

What is buncoes the plural of?
Buncoes is the plural of bunco.

Words near buncoes in the dictionary

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

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