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Definition of Thimblerigger
1. n. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain.
Definition of Thimblerigger
1. Noun. One who cheats by thimblerigging, or tricks of legerdemain. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Thimblerigger
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimblerigger
Literary usage of Thimblerigger
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Law Magazine, and Sheriff Court Reporter by Scotland Sheriff Courts (1861)
"Now. really this does appear to the Sheriff-Substitute to be the true reading of
the article, The pursuer is not absolutely described as a thimblerigger, ..."
2. The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest; the by Upton Sinclair (1915)
"The work of the card-sharp and the thimblerigger shocks a type of man that will
not stick at the massive "artistic swindling" of the contemporary promoter. ..."
3. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"Mr. Root, with his splendid mind, with his years of training as an intellectual
contortionist, juggler and thimblerigger, with his cynical disdain of ..."
4. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"More personal was such work as "The Stags, a Drama of To-day," in which a retired
thimblerigger and an unfortunate costermonger, under a magnificent alias, ..."
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