'Thimblerig' definitions:
Definition of 'thimblerig'
(from WordNet)
noun
A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under [syn: shell game, thimblerig]
Definition of 'Thimblerig'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Thimblerig'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'thimblerig'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- beat,
- beguile of,
- bilk,
- boiler room,
- bucket shop,
- bunco,
- bunco game,
- burn,
- cheat,
- chisel,
- chouse,
- chouse out of,
- cog,
- cog the dice,
- con,
- con game,
- confidence game,
- cozen,
- crib,
- defraud,
- diddle,
- do in,
- do out of,
- euchre,
- finagle,
- flam,
- fleece,
- flimflam,
- fob,
- fudge,
- goldbrick,
- gouge,
- gull,
- gyp,
- have,
- hocus,
- hocus-pocus,
- mulct,
- pack the deal,
- pigeon,
- practice fraud upon,
- rook,
- scam,
- screw,
- sell gold bricks,
- shave,
- shell game,
- shortchange,
- skin game,
- stack the cards,
- stick,
- sting,
- swindle,
- take a dive,
- thimblerigging,
- throw a fight,
- victimize