• thimble rigger: One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain. 1. Also known as a [shell game]: A game, usually involving gambling, in which a person hides a small object underneath one of three nutshells, thimbles, or cups, then [shuffles] them about on a flat surface while spectators try to guess the final location of the object. Also called thimblerig. 2. A fraud or deception perpetrated by shifting [conspicuous] things to hide something else.


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