bunko
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Neighbors knew her from the monthly gathering of women who rotated between homes for games of the dice game bunko.
From Time ● Dec. 17, 2012
Caan, a perennially baffled ex-con, basically plays straight man to Boyle as a bunko artist-bandleader and Lasser as the band leader's addled spouse, both of whom are amiably funny throughout.
From Time Magazine Archive
To date, the efforts by police bunko squads and civic associations to clean up the repair industry have resulted in licensing laws for various types of servicemen in several states.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then an incessantly self-admiring bunko artist figured out Laura's canny fraud and threatened to expose her unless she let him become Steele, with appropriate office space and elaborate perks.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then I don’t care to bunko anybody, and unless my arm comes back I won’t be worth the money the Feds have offered for my services.
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish
If they 15 promised that, they sure bunkoed themselves.
From In the Shadow of the Hills by George C. (George Clifford) Shedd
I hope I'm a good loser as far as the money goes, but I hate to be bunkoed.
From Fore! by Charles Emmett Van Loan
“Besides,” Burd Alling said in comment on this, “for a good cause we are all ready and willing to be bunkoed a little.”
From The Campfire Girls of Roselawn Or, a Strange Message from the Air by Margaret Penrose
"Well, I'll be bunkoed," said Uncle Ike, as he began to pull the sweater off over his head.
From Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 by George W. (George Wilbur) Peck
“So you’re the party who bunkoed Lefty, are you?”
From Lefty Locke Pitcher-Manager by Burt L. Standish
