swindle

Synonyms

beat, bilk, bleed, cheat, chisel, con, cozen, defraud, do, do in, fiddle, fleece, flimflam, gaff, gyp, hustle, mulct, pluck, ream, rip off, rook, screw, shake down, short, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, stiff, sting, victimize;

Related Words

extort, wrench, wrest, wring;

clip, gouge, nick, overcharge, soak;

exploit, milk;

deceive, dupe, fool, gull, trick;

rope (in);

betray, double-cross;

bamboozle, fast-talk;

Phrases

sell a bill of goods to, take for a ride, take to the cleaners;

Synonyms

bunco (or bunko), con, flimflam, fraud, gyp, hustle, scam, sting;

Related Words

cross, fix;

Ponzi scheme, pyramid scheme;

racket, rip-off;

thimblerig, three-card monte;

device, dodge, gimmick, jig, ploy, scheme, sleight, stratagem, trick, wile;

counterfeit, fake, forgery, hoax, humbug, phony (also phoney), sham;