thimblerig

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/    美 /ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. countable,uncountable
    — He’ll muddle away the Begum’s fortune at thimble-rig, be caught picking pockets, and finish on board the hulks.
  2. One operating such a game. countable,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To operate a thimblerig game. intransitive
    — Old Pratt is a different kind of crook—a psalm-singing, pussyfooted old buccaneer, teaching a Bible class on Sundays and thimblerigging in Wall Street on week days.
  2. To cheat (someone) by trickery. ambitransitive,figuratively
    — The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.

词形变化

thimblerigs plural thimble-rig alternative thimblerigs present,singular,third-person thimblerigging participle,present thimblerigged participle,past thimblerigged past thimble-rig alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
thimbleriggery
相关词
three-card monte

词源

词源 1
From thimble + rig.
词源 2
From thimble + rig.
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