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bunko

bunko is the alternative spelling 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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Forms of bunko

Noun
pluralbunkos
pluralbunkoes
Verb
third-person singular presentbunkos
present participlebunkoing
past participlebunkoed
pastbunkoed

Questions about bunko

What is bunko the alternative spelling of?
Bunko is the alternative spelling of bunco.

Words near bunko in the dictionary

  1. Bunkleys
  2. bunkload
  3. bunkloads
  4. bunkmate
  5. bunkmates
  6. bunko
  7. bunkoed
  8. bunkoes
  9. bunkoing
  10. bunkos
  11. bunkroom

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bunko (page history and authors); bunco (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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