chouse

Obviously, the bishop is a bidone, a small-time swindler, and the camera has just watched him chouse some country chumpkins.

From Time Magazine Archive

To cheat; to chouse; to swindle; to defraud; Ð often with out.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

Smouch, smowch, v.t. to take advantage of, to chouse.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

But Luff contrived a novel mode His creditors to chouse; For his own execution he Put into his own house!

From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Thomas Hood

Indeed, Madam, why then to proceed: Fame says, that you and my most Conscionable Guardian here, design'd, contriv'd, plotted and agreed to chouse a very civil, honourable, honest Gentleman, out of a Hundred Pound.

From The Busie Body by Jess Byrd

As soon as he has choused his draft board with a neatly feigned epileptic fit, he lights out for Paris, where he hires out as elevator operator in a fashionable hotel.

From Time Magazine Archive

Next to a legacy, a good laugh is the best thing I know; indeed, sometimes it is better, for you can't be choused out of it by your lawyer.'

From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Charles James Lever

To cheat or trick: he choused me out of it.

From 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

Market being over, quoth the devil to the farmer, Well, clown, thou hast choused me once, it is thy fault; chouse me twice, 'twill be mine.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4 by Peter Anthony Motteux

It would seem, however, that Mr. Pope had been choused, for the market fell from little to nothing.

From Parson Kelly by Andrew Lang

Dine at the Cross off steak tough as horse, And charged at the rate of a crown for a course; With bills ever high, and bows ever low, You shall have chousing wherever you go.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Eh, by Jimini, there was no chousing Jarge.

From Round the Red Lamp by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle