scam

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun scam has 1 sense

scam(n = noun.act) cozenage - a fraudulent business scheme; Array

is a kind of cheat, rig, swindle

Derived form verb scam₁

Verb scam has 1 sense

scam(v = verb.social) bunco, con, defraud, diddle, gip, goldbrick, gyp, hornswoggle, mulct, nobble, rook, short-change, swindle, victimize - 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"

is one way to cheat, chisel, rip off

Derived forms noun scam₁, noun scammer₁

Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

scam, n. US sl.
1 a trick or swindle; a fraud.
2 a story or rumour.

Etymology

20th c.: orig. unkn.

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THESAURUS

scam

ballot-box stuffing, beat, beguile of, bilk, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, cozen, cozenage, crib, defraud, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do in, do out of, dodge, euchre, finagle, fishy transaction, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, illicit business, imposition, imposture, mulct, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, racket, rook, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shortchange, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerig, throw a fight, victimize