bamboozle

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He said processors want the panel dismissed because it's easier to "bamboozle" an independent arbitrator.

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  1. transitive verb Informal To take in by elaborate methods of deceit; hoodwink. See Synonyms at deceive.

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  • Someday you're going to find someone you can't bamboozle, Danny , Doreen's voice echoed through my memory. —  Lilith Saintcrow - [Dante Valentine 1] - Working for the Devil
  • I also know that the "bamboozle" line was a call-out to Malcolm X, and, unlike Henderson, apparently, I know it's an actual Malcolm quote, not just something "as portrayed in" a movie. —  Lean Left
  • Maybe some delusional Copts, may have been fooled by this government bamboozle, and believed their "Taquia" (a provision in Islam to lie to promote an aim), but not here at Voice of the Copts, we consider every opportunity as a great occasion to reveal to the entire world, the situation of the Copts in Egypt. —  Assyrian International News Agency
  • Every year at our county fair they have their "Are you going to heaven or hell" booth that tries to bamboozle kids with this spiel, and I thoroughly detest and despise them. —  Pharyngula
  • The Democrats, seeing that they are in a political corner, are attempting to yet again bamboozle folks into thinking that they care more about the average citizen than their own pork laden positions: —  No Runny Eggs
 

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  1. Origin unknown.

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  1. Mentioned by Swift in 1710 among “certain words invented by some pretty fellows, such as banter, bamboozle, country put, … some of which are now struggling for the vogue” (Tatler, No. 230); apparently a slang word, of no definite origin, connected with (prob. abbreviated to) bamb, bam, which appears a little later: see bam. Cf. Scots bombaze, bumbaze, confuse, stupefy, bazed, based, basit, confused, stupid.
 

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