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thimblerigging

thimblerigging is the present participle and gerund 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 thimblerigging

What is thimblerigging the present participle and gerund of?
Thimblerigging is the present participle and gerund of thimblerig.

Words near thimblerigging in the dictionary

  1. thimblerig
  2. thimblerigged
  3. thimblerigger
  4. thimbleriggers
  5. thimbleriggery
  6. thimblerigging
  7. thimblerigs
  8. thimbles
  9. thimblesful
  10. thimblette
  11. thimbleweed

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