| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. A person who cheats: bilk, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer. Informal : chiseler, crook, flimflammer. Slang : diddler, gyp, gypper. See HONEST. 2. An act of cheating: fraud, swindle, victimization. Informal : flimflam. Slang : gyp. See HONEST. | | VERB: | 1. To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cozen, defraud, gull, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See HONEST. 2. Informal. To be sexually unfaithful to another: philander, womanize. Informal : fool around, mess around, play around. See SEX.
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