Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun thimblerig

1 sense of thimblerig

Sense 1
shell game, thimblerig -- (a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under)
       => swindle, cheat, rig -- (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; "that book is a fraud")