bunco-steerer

noun

A swindler; a cheat or con-man.

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Meanings

nounbunco-steerer (plural bunco-steerers)

plural bunco-steerers · alternative bunko-steerer

  1. USslangA swindler; a cheat or con-man.

    Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party

    2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404

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APA

bunco-steerer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunco-steerer

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“bunco-steerer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunco-steerer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “bunco-steerer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/bunco-steerer.

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