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bunco
▪ I. bunco, n. U.S. slang. (ˈbʌŋkəʊ) Also banco, bunko. [Said to be ad. Sp. banca, a card-game similar to monte.] A swindle perpetrated by means of card-sharping or some form of confidence trick. Freq. attrib. or as adj.; esp. bunco-steerer, a swindler; so bunco-steering vbl. n. and ppl. a.1872 Chic...
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Bunco
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Bunco was originally a confidence game similar to three-card monte. Law-enforcement groups raiding these parlors came to be known as "bunco squads". Bunco saw a resurgence in popularity as a family game in the 1980s.
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Bunco Squad
Bunco Squad is a 1950 American crime film directed by Herbert I. Leeds and written by George Callahan.
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Please explain how to play bunco
Hi, my name is Windy, and this is how to play
Bunco. Bunco is played in large groups of four, divisible by four. So, there are six rounds in a game of Bunco.
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Bunko
Bunko may refer to:
Bunkobon, a Japanese book format
Bunko Kanazawa, a Japanese adult film actress
Bunco (also Bunko and Bonko), a parlor game played in teams with three dice
A confidence trick, also known as a bunco game
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Duke of the Navy
Breezy panics, and claims to Bunco that he has no large checking account. When Bunco, Courtney and Sniffy realize that Cookie and Breezy found a chest of real riches, Bunco and Sniffy begin a scheme to rob them of the jewels.
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banco
▪ I. ‖ banco, a. (ˈbæŋkəʊ) [It.; = bank.] A term used to indicate the bank money of account in certain places, as distinguished from the current money or currency, when the latter had been depreciated from the earlier value retained by bankers in calculating exchanges with foreign countries. Thus at...
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Reed Waddell
Waddell was also involved in schemes with other prominent confidence men, including attempts to sell the Brooklyn Bridge, before his murder by noted bunco eventually moved his operations to Paris, France, working in partnership with Tom O'Brien, but was murdered by him there in an argument over shares of a bunco
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Buzz Buzzard
Bunco Busters would be Buzz Buzzard's final appearance in a Woody theatrical cartoon until Tumble Weed Greed in 1969, though Buzz continued to make appearances 12, 1953)
Socko in Morocco (January 18, 1954)
Alley to Bali (March 15, 1954)
Hot Rod Huckster (July 5, 1954)
Real Gone Woody (September 20, 1954)
Bunco
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Stories
The book consisted of 6 stories:
"The Bunco Artists"
"The Happy Suicide"
"The Good Medicine"
"The Unescapable Word" (sic)
"The Perfect Sucker" "The Bunco Artists" and "The Good Medicine" appeared in season two, on 19 December 1963 and 6 February 1964 respectively.
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Philip S. Van Cise
He is best known for arresting and prosecuting the notorious "Million-Dollar Bunco Ring" headed by Lou Blonger, a story he recounted in his book Fighting and most expensive trial to that time, 20 con men, including Lou Blonger, were convicted and sent to prison, effectively busting the "Million-Dollar Bunco
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Banco
Banco, an alternate Spanish spelling of bangka (boat) of the Philippines
Banco, another name for the parlor game Bunco
Banco, part of the nomenclature
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Herbert I. Leeds
Moto in Danger Island (1939)
Romance of the Rio Grande (1941)
Manila Calling (1942)
It Shouldn't Happen to a Dog (1946)
Bunco Squad (1950)
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Joseph Lewis
Representative from Kentucky
Hungry Joe (Joseph Lewis, 1850–1902), American swindler and bunco man
Joseph Lewis (secularist) (1889–1968), American author
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