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SHELL GAME
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
Synonyms:
shell game; thimblerig
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("shell game" is a kind of...):
cheat; rig; swindle (the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme)
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