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stingverb to charge (someone) too much for goods or servicesa nightclub that's been stinging patrons for years to rob by the use of trickery or threatsswindlers who sting unwary tourists by posing as officials demanding money beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, chouse, con, cozen, defraud, diddle, do, do in, euchre, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hose(slang), hustle, mulct, nobble(British slang), pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, skunk, squeeze, stick, stiff, 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 an instance of the use of dishonest methods to acquire something of valuethe pawn shop operation turned out to be a sting by undercover police officers to catch the ring of burglars bunco(or bunko), con, fiddle(chiefly British), flimflam, fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, shell game, swindle cross, fixPonzi scheme, pyramid schemeracket, rip-offthimblerig, three-card montedevice, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wilegouging, overcharging, soakingcounterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony(also phoney), sham a sharp unpleasant sensation usually felt in some specific part of the bodythe sting of cold air against my face ache, pain, pang, prick, shoot, smart, stitch, throe, tingle, twinge discomfort, distress, soreness, tendernessaffliction, agony, anguish, misery, sufferance, suffering, torment, tortureinflammation, sore, swellingdamage, detriment, harm, hurt, injurybackache, bellyache, charley horse, colic, complaint, earache, gripe, headache, stomachache, toothache comfort, ease, easiness before the 12th century |