Swindle As Rascal Extracting Last Penny Crossword Clue

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Updated: October 14, 2023

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	noun • a fraudulent business scheme verb • deprive of by deceit
	33%	4		Rascal, no-good rascal
	noun • a dissolute man in fashionable society
	29%	4		It's a swindle to put a penny on farm butter
	noun • an inclined surface connecting two levels • North American perennial having a slender bulb and whitish flowers • a movable staircase that passengers use to board or leave an aircraft verb • behave violently, as if in state of a great anger • furnish with a ramp • be rampant • creep up -- used especially of plants • stand with arms or forelegs raised, as if menacing

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