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shell game

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shell game
n.
1. A game, usually involving gambling, in which a person hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then shuffles them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object. Also called thimblerig.
2. A fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting conspicuous things to hide something else.
shell game
n
(Group Games / Gambling, except Cards) the US name for thimblerig
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Noun1.shell gameshell game - a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
thimblerig
swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"


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It built magnificent racing parks all over the country, and by means of enormous purses it lured the people to come, and then it organized a gigantic shell game, whereby it plundered them of hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
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