bunco vs cheat

bunco and cheat both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bunco	Yes	No	Yes	No
cheat	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, cheat is a hypernym of bunco; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than bunco:

bunco: a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property
cheat: the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

Other hypernyms of bunco include fraud, rig, swindle.

As verbs, cheat is a hypernym of bunco; that is, cheat is a word with a broader meaning than bunco:

Other hypernyms of bunco include chisel, rip off.

bunco (noun)	cheat (noun)
a swindle in which you cheat at gambling or persuade a person to buy worthless property	a deception for profit to yourself
	the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
	someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
	weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous
	weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

bunco (verb)	cheat (verb)
deprive of by deceit	defeat someone through trickery or deceit
	deprive somebody of something by deceit
	engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud
	be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage