| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | A person who is easily deceived or victimized: butt3, dupe, fool, lamb, pushover, victim. Informal : sucker. Slang : fall guy, gudgeon, mark, monkey, patsy, pigeon, sap1. Chiefly British : mug. See WISE. | | VERB: | To get money or something else from by deceitful trickery: bilk, cheat, cozen, defraud, mulct, rook, swindle, victimize. Informal : chisel, flimflam, take, trim. Slang : diddle1, do, gyp, stick, sting. See HONEST.
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