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Definition of Con game
1. Noun. A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.
Specialized synonyms: Sting Operation
Generic synonyms: Cheat, Rig, Swindle
Derivative terms: Bunco, Con, Flim-flam, Gyp
Definition of Con game
1. Noun. A swindle in which the mark, or victim, is defrauded after his or her trust has been won. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Con Game
Literary usage of Con game
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"A penal infer- The defendant was convicted before a just ice of the the Plaintiff>
strongly insisted upon the defendant's con- game," is not ..."
2. Reports of Cases in Criminal Law Argued and Determined in All the Courts in by Edward William Cox (1902)
"... were sufficiently con- Game — ,. , • . ,, , , . , ., . J • ,•>• _ nected to
form one transaction, and that B. was therefore guilty Trespass in °J ..."
3. The Parliamentary Debates from the Year 1803 to the Present Timeby Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard by Great Britain Parliament, Thomas Curson Hansard (1816)
"... that this would be the last time such services would be required and such
thanks returned, and that in I The motion was agreed to пет. con. GAME LAWS. ..."
4. The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the by Henry Louis Mencken (1921)
"... plute for plutocrat, vamp for vampire, pen for penitentiary, con for confidence (as
in con-man, con-game and to con), convi-ci and consumption, ..."
5. The International Socialist Review by Algie Martin Simons (1907)
"... forces," and in the next breath the "con" game assurance that the constabulary
scheme "will probably add considerably to the strength of the market. ..."
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