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Thimblerig   Listen
noun
Thimblerig  n.  A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.



verb
Thimblerig  v. t.  (past & past part. thimblerigged; pres. part. thimblerigging)  To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.






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"Thimblerig" Quotes from Famous Books



... Mississippi and persuaded to abandon the petty shell game by which he was getting small sums from the people he met on the way. The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname "Thimblerig." ...
— Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 • Charles H. Sylvester



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