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thimble-rigger

thimble-rigger is the alternative form of thimblerigger.

Meaning of thimblerigger

Noun

thimblerigger (plural thimbleriggers)

  1. Someone who cheats by thimblerigging, or similar tricks involving sleight of hand.
    • “[…] Them rich fellers, they don't make no bad breaks with their money. They watch it all th' time b'cause they know blame well there ain't hardly room fer their feet fer th' pikers an' tin-horns an' thimble-riggers what are layin' fer 'em. […]”1899, Stephen Crane, chapter 1, in Twelve O'Clock

Forms of thimble-rigger

pluralthimble-riggers

Questions about thimble-rigger

What is thimble-rigger the alternative form of?
Thimble-rigger is the alternative form of thimblerigger.

Words near thimble-rigger in the dictionary

  1. thim
  2. thimble
  3. thimble and pea
  4. thimble connector
  5. thimble connectors
  6. thimble-rigger
  7. thimble-riggers
  8. thimbleberries
  9. thimbleberry
  10. Thimbleby
  11. thimbled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: thimble-rigger (page history and authors); thimblerigger (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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