Thimblerig

Definition: Thimblerig

Thimblerig

Noun

1. 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: Thimblerig

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.

Crosswords: Thimblerig

Books

• The Thimblerig (reference)

• Thimblerig (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Bulgarian 

мошеничество (blackguardism, cheat, dishonesty, fraudulence, harlotry, have, knavery, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, roguery, skin, skuldggery, swiz, trickery), измама (bunco, bunko, cheat, chouse, cozenage, cross, deceit, deception, delusion, do, double cross, double dealing, doubling, dupery, falsity, fiddle, flam, foul play, frame up, fraud, gaff, gag, gouge, guile, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, have on, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, imposition, imposture, indirection, jiggery pokery, jockeying, jugglery, kid, lemon, overreach, plant, pretence, put on, rig, rip off, roguery, sell, sellout, sham, shuffle, simulacrum, skin game, spoof, swindle, take in, trickery, twist). (various references)

Pig Latin

imblerigthay

Vietnamese 

trò bài tây (hanky-panky, legerdemain, shell game, thimblerigging). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "thimblerig": thimblerigged, thimblerigger, thimbleriggers, thimblerigging, thimblerigs. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Thimblerig" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: themblerig, thimbelrig. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-2 letters: blighter, mightier.

-3 letters: bilgier, blither, gilbert, lighter, limbier, limiter, miltier, relight, thimble, timbrel.

-4 letters: begirt, begrim, blight, blithe, bright, gerbil, ghibli, giblet, gimlet, girlie, hermit, limber, limier, lither, milter, mither, mitier, regilt, riblet, timber, timbre.

-5 letters: berth, bight, bilge, birle, birth, biter, blite, eight, giber, gimel, girth, glime, grime, grith, ither, legit, liber, libri.

+1 letter: thimblerigs.

+3 letters: thimblerigged, thimblerigger.

+4 letters: thimbleriggers, thimblerigging.

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