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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of bamboozle.

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Examples

  • Hmmmmmmm. Sounds like we all were bamboozled from the get-go and the DNC planned all along to make Obama the nominee.

    DNC moving operations to Chicago 2008

  • During the next few weeks, I intend to do whatever I can to wake up those African Americans who have become "bamboozled" into believing that a moderately educated, southern white women will do something for them.

    Here's what should not happen... (Blog for Democracy) 2009

  • A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Mahmoud Abbas "bamboozled" Benjamin Netanyahu by playing hard to get and refusing to come to the peace table.

    David Suissa: Bibi's Next Move 2010

  • Capehart wrote (via Twitter, of course) that he had been "bamboozled," adding: "Lesson here: Never let a good opening get in the way of that final fact-check."

    "Worst Week in Washington" Winner: Twitter! 2010

  • Capehart wrote (via Twitter, of course) that he had been "bamboozled," adding: "Lesson here: Never let a good opening get in the way of that final fact-check."

    Who had the worst week in Washington? Twitter. 2010

  • A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about how Mahmoud Abbas "bamboozled" Benjamin Netanyahu by playing hard to get and refusing to come to the peace table.

    Bibi's Next Move 2010

  • Compare and contrast with The Daily Telegraph leader, headed: "We won't be fooled out of our referendum" – "bamboozled" in the print edition.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Richard 2007

  • GABE: Well, I wanted to go, but I felt kind of bamboozled, because they were telling me I had to go right then and there and that's part of the technique.

    CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2005 2005

  • As far as the Ontario farmers are concerned, they will not be "bamboozled" by any of these wild promises made by the socialistic party.

    Canadian Agriculture in the War Effort 1943

  • She has written about this political conversion in the past and described it almost as a revelation of clarity, saying the right had "bamboozled" her.

    The Guardian World News Hadley Freeman 2011

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  • Sorry, Chandler, you've just been BAMBOOZLED!

    - Joey, Friends

    November 13, 2007

  • bamboozle: to confuse a panda by hiding its food.

    November 13, 2007

  • Champ (can I call you champ?) that's probably the only thing I ever really found funny in that show. And I really wished they made a real Bamboozled game show. :-)

    November 14, 2007