HyperDic: shell_game

English > 1 sense of the expression shell game:
NOUNactshell game, thimbleriga swindling sleight-of-hand game
English > shell game: 1 sense > noun 1, act
MeaningA swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under.
Synonymthimblerig
Broaderswindle, cheat, rigThe act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
Spanishtrile, trilero

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