Con and Hostage

Con

Con noun - A person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentence.

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Hostage and con are semantically related. in prisoner topic. In some cases you can use "Hostage" instead a noun "Con".

Nearby Word: cony

Hostage noun - A prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms.

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Con and hostage are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Con" instead a noun "Hostage".

fellow	fellow con	fellow hostage
old	old con	old hostage
female	female con	female hostage
particular	particular con	particular hostage
Other adjectives: specific, perfect, original, fake, single, entire, real, little, bad, next, last, previous.

Nathan is about to con a corrupt judge out of thousands of dollars when the bank is robbed and the robbers take everyone hostage when the police arrive.

Source: Disguised Hostage Gambit
In The Muppets Take Manhattan, a con artist cornered by police takes Camilla the chicken hostage.

Source: Take Me Instead
Done by the heroes in Leverage, "The Maltese Falcon Job." They have a corrupt mayor held hostage in a warehouse and make him call a criminal he's been working with (who they're running a con on).

Source: Fake Kill Scare

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