Synonyms of plucking

plucking

verb

present participle of pluck

as in squeezing

to rob by the use of trickery or threats

the Internet opened up a whole new medium for con artists to pluck the gullible

Synonyms & Similar Words

• squeezing
• stinging
• cheating
• hustling
• sticking
• beating
• screwing
• doing
• bleeding
• fiddling
• chiselling
• fleecing
• chiseling
• suckering
• reaming
• swindling
• victimizing
• tricking
• deceiving
• diddling
• exploiting
• shorting
• defrauding
• skinning
• rooking
• gaffing
• bilking
• mulcting
• conning
• shortchanging
• shaking down
• hosing
• cozening
• clipping
• ripping off
• stiffing
• fooling
• nobbling
• betraying
• flimflamming
• euchring
• doing in
• thimblerigging
• wrenching
• chousing
• taking for a ride
• extorting
• wringing
• nicking
• gouging
• taking to the cleaners
• soaking
• skunking
• milking
• wresting
• selling a bill of goods to
• overcharging
• gulling
• duping
• bitching
• double-crossing
• roping (in)
• bamboozling
• fast-talking