Thimblerig
//ˈθɪmbəlɹɪɡ//
"Thimblerig" in a Sentence (4 examples)
He’ll muddle away the Begum’s fortune at thimble-rig, be caught picking pockets, and finish on board the hulks.
‘Great Barnums?’ says I. ‘You're a ringer for a circus thimblerig man.’
Old Pratt is a different kind of crook—a psalm-singing, pussyfooted old buccaneer, teaching a Bible class on Sundays and thimblerigging in Wall Street on week days.
The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.
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