History
History
Synonyms
UK
US
Meaning:
bamboozle

the cheat; trick (a person)

fool; cheat

beguile

the cheats, deceive (a person)

fool

bunk

to stay away from school, work etc without permission

nonsense

collusion

a secret agreement or understanding for a deceitful or fraudulent purpose

secret understanding, often with intent to defraud

deception

the act of deceiving or being deceived

misleading; being dishonest

defraud

to trick (a person) out of what is rightly hers or his

cheat, bilk

fleece

(a piece of) the woolly covering of a sheep or similar animal; to rob (a person) by using trickery

plunder, steal

fraud

(an act of) criminal dishonesty; a person who pretends to be qualified, to have authority or to want to be kind, but who is or does not

trickery, deception

hoax

(to deceive a person using) a trick intended to make a person believe something that is not true and act unnecessarily

trick

treachery

the act, result, of being treacherous

disloyalty, dishonesty

trickery

deception, joke

deception, joke

unethical

not ethical

dishonest, immoral

wiles

tricks used to get something one wants

cunning

FLIMFLAM as in Wiktionary
FLIMFLAM as in Wikipedia