Definitions for scam

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Spelling: [skam]
IPA: /skæm/

Scam is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 39 anagrams from letters in scam (acms).

Definitions for scam

noun

  1. a confidence game or other fraudulent scheme, especially for making a quick profit; swindle.

verb (used with object)

  1. to cheat or defraud with a scam.

Origin of scam

1960-65; orig. carnival argot; of obscure origin

Examples for scam

Earning ownership had come to feel like a scam—even when it came to the things that we felt made life worth living.

Clients who are wary of online transactions are liable to see escorts with print ads as less likely to cheat or scam  them.

“There are plenty of companies that are more than happy to spam and scam customers with bare-minimum products,” McEwen says.

She suspected that Northup may not have been kidnapped, but had been willingly involved in a scam that had massively backfired.

Reassured in his belief that Beacon International was just a scam, Fox all but forgot the entire ordeal, he told The Daily Beast.

The Wounded Warrior Project is certainly not a scam, nor an ill-meaning charity.

Then I heard “Stairway to Heaven” on the radio, and his scam was exposed.

They let the victims profit in the first round or two of the scam.

(a) A jar not properly vulcanized may come apart at the scam.

Several people stung by the scam reportedly went to the police.

Word Value for scam
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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