"three-card monte" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: three-card montes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|s}} three-card monte (usually uncountable, plural three-card montes)
  1. A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards. Tags: uncountable, usually Synonyms: find the lady, follow the bee, follow the lady, menage-a-card, three-card marney, three-card trick, three-way, three-card shuffle, triplets Related terms: shell game, tosser Translations (confidence trick): bonneteau [masculine] (French), Kümmelblättchen [neuter] (German)

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