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shell game
DEFINITIONS OF:
shell game
1
n
a swindling sleight-of-hand game; victim guesses which of three things a pellet is under
Synonyms:
thimblerig
Type of:
cheat
,
rig
,
swindle
the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme
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