Dictionary Definition
swindle n : the act of swindling by some
fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud" [syn: cheat, rig] v : 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, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, con]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Verb
Translations
to defraud someone
- Dutch: oplichten, frauderen
- Finnish: huijata
- German: beschwindeln
- Icelandic: svindla á
to obtain money or property by fraudulent or
deceitful methods
- Finnish: huijata
- German: schwindeln
- Icelandic: svindla
Translations
an instance of swindling
Extensive Definition
The term Swindle may refer to:
- Swindle, a confidence trick
- Swindle, a kind of fraud
- Swindle (chess), a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss
- Swindle (film), 2002 crime thriller film starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn
- Swindle (Transformers), several fictional characters in the Transformers universe
- Eilenberg-Mazur swindle, a mathematical proof in knot theory and geometric topology
See also
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
abstract, abstraction, and, annex, annexation, appropriate, appropriation, bag, ballot-box stuffing, bamboozle, beat, beguile of, bilk, bleed, bleed white, boost, boosting, borrow, buffalo, bunco, burn, cardsharping, cheat, cheating, chicanery, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, clinquant, clip, cog, cog the dice, con, con game, confidence game,
conversion, conveyance, cop, counterfeit, cozen, cozenage, crib, deceive, deception, defraud, defrauding, diddle, diddling, dishonesty, do, do in, do out of, dodge, dummy, dupe, embezzle, embezzlement, euchre, exploit, extort, fake, fakement, fiddle, filch, filching, finagle, fishy transaction,
flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fool, forgery, frame-up, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, fudge, gerrymandering, gouge, graft, grift, gull, gyp, gyp joint, have, hoax, hocus, hocus-pocus, hold up,
hoodwink, hook, humbug, illicit business,
imitation, imposition, impostor, imposture, junk, knavery, liberation, lift, lifting, make off with, mock, mulct, nip, overcharge, overprice, overtax, pack the deal, palm, paste, phony, pigeon, pilfer, pilferage, pilfering, pinch, pinchbeck, pinching, pluck, poach, poaching, practice fraud upon,
profiteer, purloin, put-on, put-up job,
racket, rip-off, rogue, rook, run away with, rustle, scam, screw, scrounge, scrounging, sell, sell gold bricks, sham, sharp practice, shave, shoddy, shoplift, shoplifting, shortchange, simulacrum, skin, snare, snatch, snatching, sneak thievery,
snitch, snitching, soak, stack the cards, steal, stealage, stealing, stick, sting, surcharge, swindling, swipe, swiping, take, take a dive, take in,
theft, thieve, thievery, thieving, thimblerig, thimblerigging, throw a
fight, tinsel, trick, trickery, victimize, walk off with,
whited sepulcher