[syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
short-change
v 1: cheat someone by not returning him enough money [syn:
short-change, short]
2: deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance";
"She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier
gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble,
diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip,
hornswoggle, short-change, con]