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3-card monte

3-card monte is the alternative spelling of three-card monte.

Meaning of three-card monte

Noun

three-card monte (usually uncountable, plural three-card montes)

  1. (usually) A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.
    • A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times

Forms of 3-card monte

plural3-card montes

Questions about 3-card monte

What is 3-card monte the alternative spelling of?
3-card monte is the alternative spelling of three-card monte.

Words near 3-card monte in the dictionary

  1. 3 Lions
  2. 3-1-1
  3. 3-1-3
  4. 3-2-1
  5. 3-3-3 rule
  6. 3-card monte
  7. 3-clause
  8. 3-D
  9. 3-D printer
  10. 3-D printers
  11. 3-day measles

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