timo

n. thyme, aromatic plant of the mint family (Botany); thymus, gland in the neck that is involved in the production of immune system cells (Medicine)

n. swindle, racket; sting

v. cheat, swindle; gull; chisel

n. thyme, aromatic plant of the mint family

= confidence trick, swindle, rip-off, swindling, cheating, hocus pocus.
Ex: Unless universal education is nothing more than a confidence trick, there must be more people today who can benefit by real library service than ever there were in the past.
Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
Ex: The article 'Online scams, swindles, frauds and rip-offs' lists some of the most better known Internet frauds of recent times.
Ex: The swindling & deception the immigrants encountered often preyed on their Zionist ideology & indeed, some of the crooks were Jewish themselves.
Ex: The author discerns 3 levels of cheating and deceit and examines why scientists stoop to bias and fraud, particularly in trials for new treatments.
Ex: The final section of her paper calls attention to the 'hocus pocus' research conducted on many campuses.

= cheat (on), trick, dupe, rip off, take in, swindle, shortchange, hoodwink.
Ex: Students who cheat on literature searching, for instance, will not get the full benefit of the course.
Ex: People will try to trick or deceive systems that support intrinsically social activities.
Ex: He offers an antidote to modern-day jeremiads that criticize easily duped consumers.
Ex: Thee reader is being ripped off by bookselling chains demanding so-called 'bungs' for prime space.
Ex: 'Boy, have you been brainwashed! You've been taken in by the tobacco industry', she said = Ella dijo: "¡Chico, te han lavado el cerebro! la industrial del tabaco te ha timado".
Ex: It is evident that the candidates for everlasting youth will be eternally swindled.
Ex: Banning's decision to hold up Madison and Jefferson as models without discussing in some depth the practical ways in which they politicked shortchanges the reader.
Ex: In turn, a consequential effect is that reference librarians and scholars might end up getting hoodkwinked.