bunco-steerer
English
Alternative forms
- bunko-steerer
Noun
bunco-steerer (plural bunco-steerers)
- (US, slang) A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 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
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 404:
See also
- bunco booth