Rook (Verb)
Meaning
Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her";.
Classification
Verbs of political and social activities and events.
Examples
- The con artist managed to rook the elderly woman out of her life savings by selling her a fake investment.
- The poker player accused the others of trying to rook him by dealing from the bottom of the deck.
- The investment company's CEO was accused of using accounting tricks to rook investors out of millions of dollars.
- In a clever scam, the thieves managed to rook several tourists in the city square by selling them worthless trinkets at inflated prices.
- The lawyer was disbarred for attempting to rook his clients by misrepresenting the value of their settlement.