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three-card monte

noun as in gambling game

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Of course, but after years of playing three-card monte with the Edwardses, is anybody listening?

But the hotel-keepers and three-card-monte men are not waiting for that discovery to grow rich.

Two of the well-known sharpers who hung around the camps had enticed little Pete in there, and to a game of three-card monte.

Within another were all the appliances for three-card Monte or Faro.

Not a three-card monte man or a whip seller or a vendor of non-intoxicants.

Even a more fruitful source of income than the pulley-weights was the interesting little game known as three-card monte.

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On this page you'll find 2 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to three-card monte, such as: shell game, and thimblerig.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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