Verb
- 1. juggle, beguile, hoodwink, cheat, rip off, chisel
- usage: influence by slyness
- 2. bamboozle, snow, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, lead by the nose, play false, deceive, betray, lead astray
- usage: conceal one's true motives from especially by elaborately feigning good intentions so as to gain an end; "He bamboozled his professors into thinking that he knew the subject well"
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