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con trick

con trick is the abbreviation of confidence trick.

Meaning of confidence trick

Noun

confidence trick (plural confidence tricks)

  1. A method of cheating somebody by winning their confidence and having them hand over their money (or other valuables).
    • He was telling northern Europeans that some of the devotions which most deeply satisfied them […] were nothing but clerical confidence tricks.2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years, Penguin, published 2010, page 558

Forms of con trick

pluralcon tricks

Questions about con trick

What is con trick the abbreviation of?
Con trick is the abbreviation of confidence trick.

Words near con trick in the dictionary

  1. con rods
  2. con sord
  3. con sordini
  4. con sordino
  5. con suite
  6. con trick
  7. con tricks
  8. con woman
  9. con women
  10. con-
  11. con-artist

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