official form (noun) red tape: bureaucratic rules
Sinonime: bamboozle*,
beat,
beguile, bilk, bleed, bunco, burn, caboodle, chisel, con, cozen,
crib,
cross, deceive, defraud,
delude, diddle, do a number on,
do*, double-cross, double-deal, dupe, fast talk, finagle, fleece, flimflam, fudge, give bum steer, gouge, gyp,
hoodwink, hose, jerk around, milk, mislead, pull one's leg, ream, rip off, rook, rope in, sandbag,
scam,
screw,
shaft,
short, shuck,
skin,
snow,
stiff, sucker,
swindle,
take, take for a ride,
take in,
take out, trick,
trim, two-time, victimize