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three-card montes

three-card montes is the plural 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

Questions about three-card montes

What is three-card montes the plural of?
Three-card montes is the plural of three-card monte.

Words near three-card montes in the dictionary

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  2. three-camera
  3. three-camera sitcom
  4. three-card marney
  5. three-card monte
  6. three-card montes
  7. three-card shuffle
  8. three-card trick
  9. three-card trickster
  10. three-card tricksters
  11. three-center two-electron bond

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