estafar

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to swindle, to con
  2. (transitive) to rip off, to cheat

Frequency

23k
Hyphenated as
es‧ta‧far
Pronounced as (IPA)
/estaˈfaɾ/
Etymology

In summary

Borrowed from Italian staffare (“to lose one's stirrup[s]”), comparing the victim of a fraud to a rider.

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