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Definition: Shell Game |
Shell GameNoun1. A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonym: Shell GameSynonym: thimblerig (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Deception | Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Old Shell Game (1948) A Hard Shell Game (1921) The Shell Game (1918) Shell Game (1987) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
shell game | 13 |
ghost in the shell game | 4 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "shell game"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Turkish | aldatmacalı üç kabuk oyunu, üçkâğıtçılık (confidence game, confidence trick, highway robbery, indirection, knavery, skulduggery, swindling, trick, trickery, wiliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | trò cua cá, trò bà i tây (hanky-panky, legerdemain, thimblerig, thimblerigging). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-g-h-l-l-m-s" | |
-2 letters: alleges, mallees. | |
-3 letters: allees, allege, almehs, eagles, gleams, legals, mallee, measle. | |
-4 letters: aglee, allee, almeh, almes, eagle, easel, gales, galls, games, ghees, gleam, glees, haems, hales, halls, halms, hames, heals, heels, hells, helms, hemal, hemes, lames, lease, leash, legal, leges, mages, males, malls, meals, mells, selah, selle, shale, shall, shame, sheal, shell, small. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-g-h-l-l-m-s" | |
+4 letters: hellgrammites. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
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