- DEFINITION
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
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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