All boiler room synonyms
boil·er room
B b noun boiler room
- con — Con is the written abbreviation for constable, when it is part of a policeman's title.
- flimflam — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- hustle — to proceed or work rapidly or energetically: to hustle about putting a house in order.
- racket — a light bat having a netting of catgut or nylon stretched in a more or less oval frame and used for striking the ball in tennis, the shuttlecock in badminton, etc.
- rip-off — a rent made by ripping; tear.
- shell game — a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
- skin game — a dishonest or unscrupulous business operation, scheme, etc.
- sting — to prick or wound with a sharp-pointed, often venom-bearing organ.
- swindle — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
- ponzi — a swindle in which a quick return, made up of money from new investors, on an initial investment lures the victim into much bigger risks.
- bait-and-switch — denoting a deceptive method of selling, by which customers, attracted to a store by sale items, are told either that the advertised bargain item is out of stock or is inferior to a higher-priced item that is available.
- bunko — bunco
- con job — an act or instance of duping or swindling.
- confidence trick — A confidence trick is a trick in which someone deceives you by telling you something that is not true, often to trick you out of money.
- con game — a swindle involving money, goods, etc, in which the victim's trust is won by the swindler; a shortened form of confidence game
- chop shop — a place where stolen automobiles are dismantled for parts which are sold or used to repair wrecked vehicles which are then illicitly resold