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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

v
1: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]

Merriam Webster's

transitive verb (-swoggled; hornswoggling) Etymology: origin unknown Date: circa 1829 slang bamboozle, hoax

Oxford Reference Dictionary

v.tr. sl. cheat, hoax. Etymology: 19th c.: orig. unkn.