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mulctnoun a sum of money to be paid as a punishmentthe loan shark usually imposed a mulct of an additional 20% on overdue payments damages, fine, forfeit, forfeiture, penalty reparationsassessment, award, compensationindemnity to rob by the use of trickery or threatstrying to mulct the insurance company for an accident that never happened beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, sucker, swindle, thimblerig, victimize extort, wrench, wrest, wringclip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soakexploit, milkdeceive, dupe, fool, gull, trickrope (in)betray, bitch, double-crossbamboozle, fast-talk sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners in the 15th century |