thimblerig

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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.

   “He’ll muddle away the Begum’s fortune at thimble-rig, be caught picking pockets, and finish on board the hulks.”

2. isim One operating such a game.
3. fiil To operate a thimblerig game.

   “Old Pratt is a different kind of crook—a psalm-singing, pussyfooted old buccaneer, teaching a Bible class on Sundays and thimblerigging in Wall Street on week days.”

4. fiil To cheat (someone) by trickery.

   “The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.”