Con
Con noun - A person convicted as a criminal and serving a prison sentence.
Usage example: was uneasy with the fact that an ex-con was living next door
Nearby Word: cony
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Con Air gives us the inmate Johnny 23 (played by Danny Trejo), named for his twenty-three counts of rape, although he boasts "They'd call me Johnny 600 if they knew the truth".
Source: Serial Rapist - Sawyer in Lost ironically bypassed most of a six year sentence by agreeing to con an inmate into revealing the location of a large sum of money he stole.
Source: Win Your Freedom
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