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  Saturday, 02 March 2013
  
  thimblerig
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• \THIM-bul-rig\

• DEFINITION
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verb

1: to cheat by trickery

2: to swindle by a trick in which a small ball or pea is quickly shifted from under one to another of three small cups to fool the spectator guessing its location

• EXAMPLES
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The appraiser looked closely at the painting and then reluctantly told us that we had been thimblerigged into buying a worthless copy.

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