short-change

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verb

1. cheat someone by not returning him enough money (Freq. 1)
• Syn:
short
• Hypernyms:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble,
diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp,
gip, hornswoggle, con
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
2. deprive of by deceit
- He swindled me out of my inheritance
- She defrauded the customers who trusted her
- the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change
• Syn:
victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble,
diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp,
gip, hornswoggle, con
• Derivationally related forms:
con (for: con), gyp (for: gyp), scammer (for: scam), scam (for: scam), defrauder (for: defraud), bunco (for: bunco), swindler (for: swindle), swindle (for: swindle), victimization (for: victimize)
• Hypernyms:
cheat, rip off, chisel
• Hyponyms:
short
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
- Somebody ----s somebody PP