Swindle
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The term swindle may refer to:
  • Swindle, a confidence trick
    Confidence trick
    A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by gaining their confidence. A confidence artist is an individual working alone or in concert with others who exploits characteristics of the human psyche such as dishonesty and honesty, vanity, compassion, credulity, irresponsibility,...

  • Swindle, a kind of fraud
    Fraud
    In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...

  • Swindle (chess)
    Swindle (chess)
    In chess, a swindle is a ruse by which a player in a losing position tricks his opponent, and thereby achieves a win or draw instead of the expected loss. It may also refer more generally to obtaining a win or draw from a clearly losing position. I. A. Horowitz and Fred Reinfeld distinguish among...

    , a ruse by which a chess player in a losing position tricks his opponent


In media and popular culture, Swindle can refer to:
  • Swindle (film)
    Swindle (film)
    Swindle is a 2002 crime thriller film written and directed by K.C. Bascombe and starring Tom Sizemore, Sherilyn Fenn and Dave Foley.-Cast:*Tom Sizemore as Seth George*Sherilyn Fenn as Sophie Zenn*Dave Foley as Michael Barnes*Conrad Pla as Cisco...

    , a 2002 crime thriller film starring Tom Sizemore and Sherilyn Fenn
  • Swindle (novel), a 2008 children's book by Gordon Korman
  • Swindle Magazine
    Swindle Magazine
    Swindle was a bi-monthly arts and culture publication founded in 2004 by artist Shepard Fairey. Swindle has not been published since 2009 and is, in effect, folded....

    , a bi-monthly arts and culture publication
  • Swindle (Transformers)
    Swindle (Transformers)
    Swindle is the name given to several different fictional characters in the Transformers universes.-Transformers: Generation 1:Swindle originally appeared as a member of a group of five Decepticons known as the Combaticons who were able to combine together to form a larger robot known as Bruticus...

    , several fictional characters in the Transformers universe
  • The Swindle, an Italian film
  • The Swindle (1997 film)
    The Swindle (1997 film)
    The Swindle is a 1997 French crime-comedy film directed by Claude Chabrol and starring Isabelle Huppert.-Cast:* Isabelle Huppert - Elizabeth / Betty* Michel Serrault - Victor* François Cluzet - Maurice Biagini* Jean-François Balmer - Monsieur K...

    , a 1997 film

See also

  • Swindler (disambiguation)
    Swindler (disambiguation)
    A swindler is generally a charlatan, a person practicing quackery, fraud, or similar confidence trick in order to obtain money, property, or advantage by pretense.Swindler as a surname may also refer to:...

  • Eilenberg–Mazur swindle
    Eilenberg–Mazur swindle
    In mathematics, the Eilenberg–Mazur swindle, named after Samuel Eilenberg and Barry Mazur, is a method of proof that involves paradoxical properties of infinite sums. In geometric topology it was introduced by and is often called the Mazur swindle...

    , a mathematical proof in knot theory and geometric topology
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