Crossword clues for thimblerig
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, n. A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
Thimblerig \Thim"ble*rig`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thimblerigged; p. pr. & vb. n. Thimblerigging.] To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.
Wiktionary
n. 1 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. 2 One operating such a game. vb. 1 To cheat in the thimblerig game. 2 To cheat by trickery.
WordNet
n. a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under [syn: shell game]
Usage examples of "thimblerig".
Flight Subaltern Smith to his first duty station at Thimblerig Aerodrome in Augusta, Georgia.
Certain Caledonian Assembly bureaucrats with private agendas, professional sharpsters, sleazy corner-cutters, and thimblerigging entrepreneurs came to view her as a holy terror.