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thimblerig

noun as in shell game

noun as in three-card monte

Weak match

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Example Sentences

The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname “Thimblerig.”

A Tory told me it was a second edition of the thimblerig speech, which, if so, will not do him good.

How terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot!

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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