swindle
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Cheating & tricking
anti-fraud
bad faith
bamboozle
bilk
blackmail
deceive
diddle
fiddle
flannel
game-fixing
grift
grifter
gull
have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
pretext
pretextual
pull
pull a fast oneidiom
pull the wool over someone's eyesidiom
racket
Examples of rooking
rooking
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
I do not say that he should shout from the housetops that we should "rook"the foreigners, although some of them are"
rooking" us all right.
From the
Hansard archive
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They have been
rooking them for years.
From the
Hansard archive
Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
A variety of animal species meet their needs for food, shelter, nesting, and
rooking in pine rocklands.
From
Wikipedia
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