Definitions from Wiktionary (thimblerig)

▸ noun:  A game of skill which requires the bettor to 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.
▸ noun:  One operating such a game.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To cheat in the thimblerig game.
▸ verb:  (ambitransitive, figuratively) To cheat (someone) by trickery.


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