Synonyms of the word

short-change

• v. Alternative form of shortchange.

bunco

• n. (US, slang) A swindle or confidence trick.
• n. A parlour game played in teams with three dice, originating in England but popular among suburban women…
• n. brigand.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, US, slang) To swindle (someone).

cheat

• v. (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
• v. (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
• v. (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed unlikely.
• v. (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
• v. To beguile.
• n. Someone who cheats (informal: cheater).
• n. An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception; a fraud; a trick; imposition;…
• n. The weed cheatgrass.
• n. A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
• n. (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a computer game, often by entering a cheat…

chisel

• n. Gravel.
• n. (usually in the plural) Coarse flour; bran; the coarser part of bran or flour.
• n. A cutting tool consisting of a slim oblong block of metal with a sharp wedge or bevel formed on one end…
• v. (intransitive) To use a chisel.
• v. (transitive) To work something with a chisel.
• v. (intransitive, informal) To cheat, to get something by cheating.

con

• v. (rare) To study, especially in order to gain knowledge of.
• v. (rare, archaic) To know, understand, acknowledge.
• v. Variant spelling of conn: to conduct the movements of a ship at sea.
• n. A disadvantage of something, especially when contrasted with its advantages (pros).
• n. (computing) A reserved word in MS-DOS applications, likely an abbreviation for console.
• n. (slang) A convicted criminal, a convict.
• n. (slang) A fraud; something carried out with the intention of deceiving, usually for personal, often illegal,…
• v. (transitive, slang) To trick or defraud, usually for personal gain.
• v. (nautical) To give the necessary orders to the helmsman to steer a ship in the required direction through…
• n. (nautical) The navigational direction of a ship.
• n. An organized gathering such as a convention, conference or congress.

defraud

• v. (transitive) To obtain money or property by fraud; to swindle.

diddle

• n. (music) In percussion, two consecutive notes played by the same hand (either RR or LL), similar to the…
• n. (slang, childish) The penis.
• v. (transitive) to cheat; to swindle.
• v. (transitive) to have sex with.
• v. (transitive) to masturbate (especially of women).
• v. (transitive) to waste time.
• v. (intransitive) To totter, like a child learning to walk; to daddle.

gip

• v. Alternative form of gyp.
• n. A servant; a gyp.
• v. To take out the entrails of (herrings).

goldbrick

• n. A gold brick, especially one that is fraudulent or nonexistent; (figuratively) a swindle, a con.
• n. (US slang, dated) A shirker or malingerer.
• n. (US slang, dated) A swindler.
• v. (US slang, dated) To shirk or malinger.
• v. (US slang, dated) To swindle.

gyp

• n. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) A cheat or swindle; a rip-off.
• n. Synonym of gypsy (“contra dance step”).
• v. (pejorative, sometimes offensive) To cheat or swindle someone or something inappropriately.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A college servant.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) The room in which such college servants work.
• n. (Cambridge and Durham, England) A small kitchen for use by college students.
• n. Gypsophila.
• n. Pain or discomfort.

hornswoggle

• v. (transitive) To deceive or trick.

mulct

• n. (law) A fine or penalty, especially a pecuniary one.
• v. To impose such a fine or penalty.
• v. To swindle (someone) out of money.

nobble

• v. (Britain, Australia, slang) To injure or obstruct intentionally.
• v. (Britain, slang) To gain influence by corrupt means or intimidation.
• v. (Britain, slang) To steal.

rook

• n. A European bird, Corvus frugilegus, of the crow family.
• n. A cheat or swindler; someone who betrays.
• n. (Britain) a type of firecracker used by farmers to scare birds of the same name.
• n. A trick-taking game, usually played with a specialized deck of cards.
• v. (transitive) To cheat or swindle.
• n. (chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally)…
• n. (rare) A castle or other fortification.
• n. (baseball, slang) A rookie.
• n. mist; fog; roke.
• v. (obsolete) To squat; to ruck.
• v. Eye dialect spelling of look.

scam

• n. A fraudulent deal.
• n. Something that is promoted using scams.
• v. (transitive) To defraud or embezzle.

short

• adj. Having a small distance from one end or edge to another, either horizontally or vertically.
• adj. (of a person) Of comparatively little height.
• adj. Having little duration; opposite of long.
• adj. (followed by for) Of a word or phrase, constituting an abbreviation (for another) or shortened form (of…
• adj. (cricket, Of a fielder or fielding position) that is relatively close to the batsman.
• adj. (cricket, Of a ball) that bounced relatively far from the batsman.
• adj. (golf, of an approach shot or putt) that falls short of the green or the hole.
• adj. (of pastries and metals) Brittle, crumbly, especially due to the use of too much shortening. (See shortbread,…
• adj. Abrupt; brief; pointed; petulant.
• adj. Limited in quantity; inadequate; insufficient; scanty.
• adj. Insufficiently provided; inadequately supplied; scantily furnished; lacking.
• adj. Deficient; less; not coming up to a measure or standard.
• adj. (obsolete) Not distant in time; near at hand.
• adj. In a financial investment position that is structured to be profitable if the price of the underlying…
• adv. Abruptly, curtly, briefly.
• adv. Unawares.
• adv. Without achieving a goal or requirement.
• adv. (cricket, of the manner of bounce of a cricket ball) Relatively far from the batsman and hence bouncing…
• adv. (finance) With a negative ownership position.
• n. A short circuit.
• n. A short film.
• n. Used to indicate a short-length version of a size.
• n. (baseball) A shortstop.
• n. (finance) A short seller.
• n. (finance) A short sale.
• n. A summary account.
• n. (phonetics) A short sound, syllable, or vowel.
• n. (programming) An integer variable shorter than normal integers; usually two bytes long.
• v. (transitive) To cause a short circuit in (something).
• v. (intransitive) Of an electrical circuit, to short circuit.
• v. (transitive) To shortchange.
• v. (transitive) To provide with a smaller than agreed or labeled amount.
• v. (transitive, business) To sell something, especially securities, that one does not own at the moment for…
• v. (obsolete) To shorten.
• prep. Deficient in.
• prep. (finance) Having a negative position in.

short-change

• v. Alternative form of shortchange.

swindle

• v. (transitive) To defraud (someone).
• v. (intransitive) To obtain money or property by fraudulent or deceitful methods.
• n. An instance of swindling.

victimize

• v. To make someone a victim or sacrifice.
• v. To punish someone unjustly.
• v. To swindle or defraud someone.