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consnoun1pl. of con a person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentencea program to help ex-cons find employment consnoun2pl. of conan instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethe explanation was so plausible that I never suspected it was all a con to make off with my car buncos(or bunkos), fiddles(chiefly British), flimflams, frauds, gyps, hustles, scams, shell games, stings, swindles crosses, fixesPonzi schemes, pyramid schemesrackets, rip-offsthimblerigs, three-card montesdevices, dodges, gimmicks, jigs, ploys, schemes, sleights, stratagems, tricks, wilescounterfeits, fakes, forgeries, hoaxes, humbug, phonies(also phoneys), shams to commit to memoryusually candidates con their entire campaign speech, right down to the jokes they supposedly ad-lib learns, memorizes, studies harks back (to), minds(chiefly dialect), recalls, recollects, relives, remembers, reminisces (about), retains, thinks (of)accepts, apprehends, comprehends, gets, grasps, knows, understandsabsorbs, digests unlearns disremembers, forgets, misremembersdisregards, ignores, neglects, overlooks, overpasses, passes over, slights, slurs (over) to look over closely (as for judging quality or condition)seemed to be conning his face for any sign of uncertainty audits, checks (out), examines, inspects, overlooks, oversees, reviews, scans, scrutinizes, surveys, views notices, observes, watchescombs, peruses, pores (over)analyzes, dissects, parsesdelves (into), explores, investigates, plumbs, probes, researches, studiescategorizes, classifiespicks overreinspects, rereviews, resurveys goes over skimsglances (at or over)misses, overlooks to rob by the use of trickery or threatsa fly-by-night operator who had conned hundreds of would-be homeowners out of their hard-earned money beats, bilks, bleeds, cheats, chisels, chouses, cozens, defrauds, diddles, does, does in, euchres, fiddles, fleeces, flimflams, gaffs, gyps, hoses(slang), hustles, mulcts, nobbles(British slang), plucks, reams, rips off, rooks, screws, shakes down, shortchanges, shorts, skins, skunks, squeezes, sticks, stiffs, stings, suckers, swindles, thimblerigs, victimizes extorts, wrenches, wrests, wringsclips, gouges, nicks, overcharges, soaksexploits, milksdeceives, dupes, fools, gulls, tricksropes (in)betrays, bitches, double-crossesbamboozles, fast-talks sells a bill of goods to, takes for a ride, takes to the cleaners to cause to believe what is untruetried to con me into thinking that he had actually won the lottery bamboozles, beguiles, bluffs, buffaloes, burns, catches, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fakes out, fools, gaffs, gammons, gulls, has, has on(chiefly British), hoaxes, hoodwinks, hornswoggles, humbugs, juggles, misguides, misinforms, misleads, snookers, snows, spoofs, strings along, suckers, sucks in, takes in, tricks kids, puts on, teasesbleeds, cheats, chisels, defrauds, diddles, euchres, fleeces, flimflams, gyps, hustles, mulcts, rooks, shortchanges, skins, squeezes, sticks, stings, swindles does a number on, leads one down the garden path(also leads one up the garden path), pulls one's leg, pulls the wool over one's eyes undeceives debunks, exposes, reveals, shows up, uncloaks, uncovers, unmasksdiscloses, divulges, tells, unveilsdisabuses, disenchants, disillusions |