rook1

 
Pronunciation: /rʊk/

noun

  • a gregarious Eurasian crow with black plumage and a bare face, nesting in colonies in treetops.
    • Corvus frugilegus, family Corvidae

verb

[with object] informal
  • defraud, overcharge, or swindle (someone): police files are overflowing with complaints from people who’ve been rooked that lawyer rooked me out of it

Origin:

Old English hrōc, probably imitative and of Germanic origin; related to Dutch roek