thimblerig
Kelime Anlamı :
1. bir nohut ve üç yüksükle yapılan üçkâğıtçılık.
2. el çabuklugu oyunu.
3. el çabukluğu oyunu.
Tanımlar :
1.
see shell game.
2. one who operates a thimblerig.
3. to swindle with or as if with a thimblerig.
2. one who operates a thimblerig.
3. to swindle with or as if with a thimblerig.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1.
A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or thimbles) a pea-sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery; a shell game.
2. one operating such a game.
3. to cheat in the thimblerig game.
4. to cheat by trickery.
2. one operating such a game.
3. to cheat in the thimblerig game.
4. to cheat by trickery.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1.
A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.
2. 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.
2. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English