thimblerig
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
thimblerig (plural thimblerigs)
- A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess#Verb|guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
- One operating such a game.
- (game) shell game
- (operator) thimblerigger
- Russian: напёрстки
- Spanish: trile
- Russian: напёрсточник
- Spanish: trilero
thimblerig (thimblerigs, present participle thimblerigging; past and past participle thimblerigged)
- To cheat#Verb|cheat in the thimblerig game.
- To cheat by trickery.
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