Bunco-steerer

Full definition of bunco-steerer

Noun

1. (US, slang) A swindler; a cheat or con-man.
• 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 404:Reef need act as no more than bunco-steerer, all the research chores and assumptions of risk to be borne by Archie as principal party