thimblerigger

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Someone who cheats by thimblerigging, or similar tricks involving sleight of hand.
    — “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”

词形变化

thimbleriggers plural thimble-rigger alternative

词源

From thimblerig + -er or thimble + rigger.
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