Con and Rig

Con

Con noun - A swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property.

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Rig and con are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Rig" instead the word "Con" as a noun or a verb.

Nearby Word: cony

Rig noun - A horse-drawn wheeled vehicle for carrying passengers.

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Con and rig are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Con" instead the word "Rig" as a verb or a noun.

Nearby Word: rigging

old	old con	old rig
good	good con	good rig
full	full con	full rig
elaborate	elaborate con	elaborate rig
Other adjectives: complex, fake, initial, small, entire, massive, big, huge, bad, larger, nearby.

way

con way

rig way

Subverted in Diggstown, where the hero and the villain are both con-men who have done everything in their power to rig a series of boxing matches in their favor.

Source: Graceful Loser
It also makes reference to one of the classic ways con artists can rig games: "shaving" the edges on a die (usually a casino die, since they have sharp edges to begin with).

Source: Random Number God
When he shows up, however, he is revealed to have actually been in jail for years for being a con artist and thief, a fact which Peggy hid from everyone with the oil rig story.

Source: Retcon / Western Animation

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