bunco-steerer

English

Alternative forms

• bunko-steerer

Noun

bunco-steerer (plural bunco-steerers)

1. (US, slang) A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
   • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 404:

     Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party

See also

• bunco booth