"thimblerig" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thimblerig.wav [Southern-England] Forms: thimblerigs [plural]
Etymology: From thimble + rig. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|thimble|rig}} thimble + rig Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} thimblerig (countable and uncountable, plural thimblerigs)
  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. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Betting Synonyms: shell game Translations (sleight-of-hand betting game): тука има - тука няма (tuka ima - tuka njama) (Bulgarian), itt a piros (Hungarian), напёрстки (napjórstki) (Russian), trile [masculine] (Spanish), tatlong-didal (Tagalog)
    Sense id: en-thimblerig-en-noun-s-SimSbd Disambiguation of Betting: 57 14 16 13 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 15 2 2 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 14 3 3 Disambiguation of 'sleight-of-hand betting game': 70 30
  2. One operating such a game. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms: thimblerigger Translations (person operating such a game): напёрсточник (napjórstočnik) (Russian), trilero [masculine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-thimblerig-en-noun-tL3l2gta Disambiguation of 'person operating such a game': 38 62

Verb [English]

IPA: /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/ [General-American, Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-thimblerig.wav [Southern-England] Forms: thimblerigs [present, singular, third-person], thimblerigging [participle, present], thimblerigged [participle, past], thimblerigged [past]
Etymology: From thimble + rig. Etymology templates: {{compound|en|thimble|rig}} thimble + rig Head templates: {{en-verb|++}} thimblerig (third-person singular simple present thimblerigs, present participle thimblerigging, simple past and past participle thimblerigged)
  1. (intransitive) To cheat in the thimblerig game. Tags: intransitive
    Sense id: en-thimblerig-en-verb-W~Ha58NC
  2. (transitive, intransitive, figuratively) To cheat (someone) by trickery. Tags: figuratively, intransitive, transitive
    Sense id: en-thimblerig-en-verb-Gj6Q~xzA
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: three-card monte

Inflected forms

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