1. To delude by guile, artifice, or craft; to deceive or impose on, as by a false statement; to lure.
2. To elude, or evade by craft; to foil.
3. To cause the time of to pass without notice; to divert.
1. To use chicanery
2. Trick, cheat
1. To act with artful deceit.
2. To cheat or trick.
3. To coax or deceive by trickery.
1. To be false to; be dishonest with; SYN. lead on, delude, cozen.
2. To cause someone to believe an untruth; SYN. betray, lead astray.
To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach.
1. To lead from truth or into error; to mislead the mind or judgment of to beguile; to impose on; to dupe; to make a fool of.
2. To frustrate or disappoint.
1. chiefly dialect; to move with short rapid motions
2. To waste (as time) in trifling
3. hoax, swindle
4 often vulgar; to copulate with
5. dawdle, fool
6. fiddle, toy — usually used with with
British; to get the better of (as by trickery)
To betray by double-dealing. double-cross
1. To deceive; to trick.
2. To duplicate.
1. To shear the wool from; SYN. shear.
2. Rip off; ask an unreasonable price
To decieve, cheat.
1. To perpetrate a trick or hoax on; deceive
2. To befuddle often with drugged liquor; also; dope, drug
To deceive by false appearance.
1. To assault usually with intent to rob
2. To attack suddenly; bushwhack
3. To rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence
To make mysterious
To defraud by cheating or swindling
To deprive of by deceit; SYN. rook, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, mulct, gyp, con.
To pull a fast one, play a trick on somebody; SYN. fob, fox.