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verb, -zled, -zling.
(Informal.)
v.t. 1. to impose upon; cheat; trick.
△Ex. The boy had been bamboozled out of his cookies by the romping puppy.
2. to puzzle; perplex.
△Ex. It had never occurred to them that their high-spirited, self-confident, happy daughter would be bamboozled into muteness by the language of France (New Yorker).
v.i. to use trickery.
noun bamboozlement.
noun bamboozler.