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Meanings of shell game in English

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

Synonyms
Examples for "thimblerig"
Examples for "thimblerig"
1
Your genuine pietist would find a mystical sense in thimblerig.
Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley — Volume 3
2
I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.
The Plum Tree
3
That dame can't thimblerig me!
The Ivory Trail
4
The real name of this man Crockett never told, but assigned to him the nickname "Thimblerig."
Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8
5
He is to be seen escorting celebrated horsewoman, Fanny Highflyer, or in confidential converse with Lord Thimblerig, the eminent handicapper.
The Book of Snobs
Usage of shell game in English
1
Farming's a lonesome life; and they've been against the shell game before.
The Gentle Grafter
2
Have you ever seen a shell game played on the street?
Ebony
3
Psionics hadn't done away with anything including the old shell game.
The Big Fix
4
For once, it seemed Clara Strike wasn't playing a shell game on him.
Storm Front
5
It is nothing more than a shell game, O'Dea said.
Reuters
6
Through intimidation, vilification, bullying, a system, an underground shell game.
Tears of a clown: glenn beck and the tea bagging of america
7
It'd be like a giant-sized version of the shell game.'
The Naked God
8
That is an old swindling trick, called the ' shell game'.
The Boy from the Ranch; Or, Roy Bradner's City Experiences
9
It's also about the linebackers shell game that has last year's starters in different positions.
Reuters
10
That night I went down to the circus tents and opened a small shell game.
The Gentle Grafter
11
OK, but watch out for the old shell game.
Prescription alternatives: hundreds of safe, natural, prescripti...
12
The feds say the crooks also worked a convoluted shell game to exploit victims' bank accounts.
Wired
13
Last time they came, a not-to-bright phouka challenged one to a rigged shell game and won.
The iron king
14
He works the shell game, and it got pretty hot for him after we left Cumberland.
The Rose in the Ring
15
Maybe he's playing a shell game with us.
G'day to die: a passport to peril mystery
16
You play me like the old shell game.
Deadly Décisions