scam
n : a fraudulent business scheme [syn: cozenage]
v : deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my
inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted
her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little
change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick,
nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, mulct, gyp,
con]
WordNet (r) 2.0
67 Moby Thesaurus words for "scam":
ballot-box stuffing, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn,
cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog,
cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, diddle,
diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, finagle,
fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence,
fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp,
gyp joint, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, illicit business, imposition,
imposture, mulct, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon,
racket, rook, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange,
stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig,
throw a fight, victimize
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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