"three-card monte" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "three-card montes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "three-card monte (usually uncountable, plural three-card montes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "id": "en-three-card_monte-en-noun-owVWJGXf",
      "links": [
        [
          "confidence game",
          "confidence game"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "shell game"
        },
        {
          "word": "tosser"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "three-card marney"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "three-card trick"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "three-way"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "three-card shuffle"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "menage-a-card"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "triplets"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "follow the lady"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "find the lady"
        },
        {
          "sense": "confidence game",
          "word": "follow the bee"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "confidence trick",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "bonneteau"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "confidence trick",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "Kümmelblättchen"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-card monte"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "three-card montes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-",
        "2": "s"
      },
      "expansion": "three-card monte (usually uncountable, plural three-card montes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "shell game"
    },
    {
      "word": "tosser"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times",
          "text": "A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "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."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "confidence game",
          "confidence game"
        ],
        [
          "mark",
          "mark"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "three-card marney"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "three-card trick"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "three-way"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "three-card shuffle"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "menage-a-card"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "triplets"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "follow the lady"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "find the lady"
    },
    {
      "sense": "confidence game",
      "word": "follow the bee"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "confidence trick",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "bonneteau"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "confidence trick",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "Kümmelblättchen"
    }
  ],
  "word": "three-card monte"
}