Usually means: Street scam involving card trickery.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word three-card monte:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. three-card monte: Merriam-Webster
  2. three-card monte: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. three-card monte: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. three-card monte, three-card monte: Collins English Dictionary
  5. three-card monte: Vocabulary.com
  6. three-card monte: Wordnik
  7. three-card monte: Wiktionary
  8. three-card monte: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. three-card monte: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. three-card monte: Dictionary.com
  11. Three-card Monte, Three-card monte: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. three-card monte: Rhymezone
  13. three-card monte: FreeDictionary.org
  14. three-card monte: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. three-card monte: TheFreeDictionary.com
  16. Three-card monte: World Wide Words

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. three-card monte: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See three-card_montes as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (three-card monte)

noun:  A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.

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