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thimblerig n. 隱豆戲法
vi. 變隱豆戲法,欺騙 隱豆戲法變隱豆戲法,欺騙 thimblerig n 1: a swindling sleight- of- hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under [ synonym: { shell game}, { thimblerig}] 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]
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] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " thimblerig": 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
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