Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- abbreviation concerto
- abbreviation Latin conjunx (wife)
- abbreviation consolidate
- abbreviation consul
- abbreviation continued
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Examples
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Where I come from, if someone sells you something that loses functionality over time, it's called a con.
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Fox News sues Con Edison for trademark infringement for using the word "con."
Balkinization 2003
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Fox News sues Con Edison for trademark infringement for using the word "con."
Balkinization 2003
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It came in five hours, a string of eleven match boxes on big, high wheels, drawn by a dinky little engine with the "con."
Over the Top Arthur Guy Empey 1923
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Sign in with your name, address and a position on the bill: "con."
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That being said, Christina Patterson clearly doesn't know what is going on as evidenced by any line of her "con."
BusinessWeek.com -- 2009
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In Slumdog Millionaire, a Mumbai street kid is interrogated by cops who assume his rags to riches tale must be some kind of con.
Telegraph Blogs 2009
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The first element in our JSON example contains our search keyword "con."
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Unfortunately, there’s a sucker born every minute who falls for this kind of con.
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Unfortunately, there’s a sucker born every minute who falls for this kind of con.
Nigerian Scammers Getting Caught Is No Reason To Succumb | Lifehacker Australia 2008
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