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HORNSWOGGLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hornswoggle mean? 

HORNSWOGGLE (verb)
  The verb HORNSWOGGLE has 1 sense:

1. deprive of by deceitplay

  Familiarity information: HORNSWOGGLE used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HORNSWOGGLE (verb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Deprive of by deceit

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

bunco; con; defraud; diddle; goldbrick; hornswoggle; mulct; nobble; rook; scam; short-change; swindle; victimize

Context example:

She defrauded the customers who trusted her

Hypernyms (to "hornswoggle" is one way to...):

cheat; chisel; rip off (deprive somebody of something by deceit)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "hornswoggle"):

short; short-change (cheat someone by not returning him enough money)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP


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