| Thimblerig 1. (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea. 2. (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick. Thesaurus Entries beat, beguile of, bilk, boiler room, bucket shop, bunco, bunco game, burn, cheat, chisel, chouse, chouse out of, cog, cog the dice, con, con game, confidence game, cozen, crib, defraud, diddle, do in, do out of, euchre, finagle, flam, fleece, flimflam, fob, fudge, goldbrick, gouge, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hocus-pocus, mulct, pack the deal, pigeon, practice fraud upon, rook, scam, screw, sell gold bricks, shave, shell game, shortchange, skin game, stack the cards, stick, sting, swindle, take a dive, thimblerigging, throw a fight, victimize |