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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
confidence trick (N. Amer. also confidence game)

▶noun an act of cheating or tricking someone by persuading them to believe something that is not true.

– derivatives
confidence trickster noun.

'confidence trick' also found in these Oxford entries:

bunco - con - con trick - flimflam - pigeon

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