bunco-steerer

In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.

Sister Carrie 2004

Lord Dreever, he had felt, was precisely the sort of youth to whom the professional bunco-steerer would attach himself with shouts of joy.

The Intrusion of Jimmy 1928

Why, there's a bunch of young stock jobbers around here that would make a Wall Street bunco-steerer take to raising chickens!

The Varmint Owen Johnson 1915

She had thought to find some touch of the Boweryite about him, some outcropping of the half-submerged bunco-steerer.

Phantom Wires A Novel Arthur Stringer 1912

Its face is that of a tyrant, its numbers are false as those on a lottery ticket; its hands are those of a bunco-steerer, who makes an appointment with you to your ruin.

Fifth Avenue Arthur Bartlett Maurice 1909

They'll think you an honorable man 'stead of a bunco-steerer.

Rimrock Trail 1906

His opportunity to make an immortal ass of himself, to earn catasterism and be placed among the stars as an equine udder, thus happened to hap: Kay-See was to have a "Karnival" modeled upon the pinchbeck rake with which Waco worked the gullible country folk once upon a time -- when she so far forgot herself as to trade on womanly beauty to make it a bunco-steerer for her stores.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

In the meanwhile Hurstwood encountered a humorous item concerning a stranger who had arrived in the city and became entangled with a bunco-steerer.

Sister Carrie 1900

He had formed a friendship with Sparrow MacCoy, who was at the head of his profession as a bunco-steerer, green goodsman and general rascal.

Tales of Terror and Mystery Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

"bunco-steerer" had promised to keep his eyes and ears alert for news of any one resembling Goldenburg.

The Grell Mystery Frank Froest