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thimblerigged

thimblerigged is the simple past and past participle of thimblerig.

Meaning of thimblerig

Verb

thimblerig (third-person singular simple present thimblerigs, present participle thimblerigging, simple past and past participle thimblerigged)

  1. (intransitive) To operate a thimblerig game.
    • Old Pratt is a different kind of crook—a psalm-singing, pussyfooted old buccaneer, teaching a Bible class on Sundays and thimblerigging in Wall Street on week days.1916, Irvin S. Cobb, “Enter the villain”, in Local Color
  2. (ambitransitive, figuratively) To cheat (someone) by trickery.
    • The favor is to you. I do not permit any man to thimblerig his debts to me into my debts to him.1905, David Graham Phillips, The Plum Tree

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Questions about thimblerigged

What is thimblerigged the simple past and past participle of?
Thimblerigged is the simple past and past participle of thimblerig.

Words near thimblerigged in the dictionary

  1. thimblemakers
  2. thimblemaking
  3. thimbleman
  4. thimblemen
  5. thimblerig
  6. thimblerigged
  7. thimblerigger
  8. thimbleriggers
  9. thimbleriggery
  10. thimblerigging
  11. thimblerigs

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