bunco game
Example Sentences
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The men round the fire the night before in the cow-camp, the men of "the bunco game" had stacked cards and played trump; but unfortunately, they had jumbled the white-vested fighter's orders about the boy.
From The Freebooters of the Wilderness by Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
"Look here, Selwyn," he broke out, "do you like this bunco game?"
From The Rules of the Game by White, Stewart Edward
They were ready and eager to bite at any sort of bunco game I saw fit to play upon them.
From The Black Wolf Pack by Beard, Daniel Carter
Just as I know that case-knives are suspicious and that picking chestnuts may be a bunco game as easy as anything else.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne
I've found it nothing but a bunco game, myself.
From In a Mysterious Way by Warner, Anne
