transitive. To cheat or defraud. Cf. cozen, v.

transitive. colloquial. To alter (something) in a dishonest, underhand, or surreptitious manner; to tamper with, to doctor; to falsify. Cf. sense 6…

transitive. To devise as a fraudulent scheme; to handle (an affair, cards, etc.) in a fraudulent way. Cf. plant, n.1 4c. Obsolete. rare.

colloquial. transitive. To dispose of or pass off, esp. by fraud, trickery, or misrepresentation; to palm off. Also: to perpetrate (a swindle…