THIMBLERIG
- to cheat by trickery.
- a sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea [n -S] / to cheat by trickery [n THIMBLERIGGED, THIMBLERIGGING, THIMBLERIGS]
- sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies
- to cheat by or as by the thimblerig
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