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- noun Plural form of
bunco-steerer .
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Examples
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The old man had just been entertaining a delegation of respectable bunco-steerers from Skowmulligan, who had come to him on a matter which is none of the public's business.
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The old man had just been entertaining a delegation of respectable bunco-steerers from Skowmulligan, who had come to him on a matter which is none of the public's business.
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Don't you be afraid, I will make short work of these bunco-steerers.
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Perhaps if it gets to be known what a snap this manufacture of "Democracies" is, all the green-goods men, the bunco-steerers, and the young Napoleons of finance will go into it and the public will be humbugged more than it has been.
Plunkitt of Tammany Hall: a series of very plain talks on very practical politics, delivered by ex-Senator George Washington Plunkitt, the Tammany philosopher, from his rostrum—the New York County court house bootblack stand; Recorded by William L. Riordon George Washington Plunkitt 1883
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Don't you be afraid, I will make short work of these bunco-steerers.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872
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Don't you be afraid, I will make short work of these bunco-steerers.
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872
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As long as Eddings’ ‘heroic’ band of robbers, cutthroats, and bunco-steerers don’t go performing human sacrifices and writing necromantic grimoires on dead bodies, they can excuse themselves for all the other evil that they do.
Death carries a camcorder superversive 2006
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"How is this new road -- improbable as I know it to be -- going to affect the interests of the Laguna Grande Lumber Company, if the unexpected should happen and those bunco-steerers should actually build a road from Sequoia to Grant's Pass, Oregon, and thus construct a feeder to
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