thimblerig

Meaning of thimblerig

noun
  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.
  2. One operating such a game.
verb
  1. To cheat in the thimblerig game.
  2. To cheat by trickery.

Information about thimblerig

  • The plural form of thimblerig is: thimblerigs.
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Hyphenation of thimblerig

thim-b-lerig

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
  • thimblerig is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

thimblerig synonyms

Meaning :

thimblerigger

Words that rhyme with thimblerig

Mulderig, derig, stibblerig, rerig

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