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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Sf. Sp.

banco

bank,

banca

a sort of game at cards. Cf.

(in the commercial sense).]

A kind of swindling game or scheme, originally by means of cards or by a sham lottery, but now used for any swindling tactic.

[Written also

bunco

Bunko steerer

a person employed as a decoy in bunko.

[Slang, U.S.]

See also: bunkō

bunko

bunko ‎(third-person singular simple present bunkos, present participle bunkoing, simple past and past participle bunkoed)

bunko