Definition of "bunco-steerer" []

• A swindler; a cheat or con-man. (noun)

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• "In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer."
• "Lord Dreever, he had felt, was precisely the sort of youth to whom the professional bunco-steerer would attach himself with shouts of joy."
• "Why, there's a bunch of young stock jobbers around here that would make a Wall Street bunco-steerer take to raising chickens!"