confidence trick

confidence game

na swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler. Informal shortened forms: con trick or con game (US and Canadian)

confidence trick

- First a swindle in which the victim was persuaded to entrust money or valuables to the swindler.See also related terms for swindle.

Thesaurus

Noun

confidence trick - a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless propertybunco, bunco game, bunko, bunko game, con game, confidence game, flimflam, gyp, hustle, con, stingsting operation - a complicated confidence game planned and executed with great care (especially an operation implemented by undercover agents to apprehend criminals)swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

Translations

truffa all'americana

confidence trick