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buncos

buncos is the plural of bunco.

buncos is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 buncos

What is buncos the plural of?
Buncos is the plural of bunco.

Words near buncos in the dictionary

  1. buncoed
  2. buncoes
  3. buncoing
  4. buncombe
  5. Buncombe County
  6. buncos
  7. Buncrana
  8. bund
  9. bunda
  10. Bundabah
  11. Bundaberg

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