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n.

1. See shell game.

2. One who operates a thimblerig.

tr.v. thim·ble·rigged, thim·ble·rig·ging, thim·ble·rigs

To swindle with or as if with a thimblerig.

thimble·rigger n.

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thimblerig

thimblerig - a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under

swindle, cheat, rig - the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud"

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