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present tense third-person singular of thimblerig
Synonyms of thimblerigs
(Entry 1 of 2)
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
- had the feeling that I had just been thimblerigged by the sweetest-looking old lady
Synonyms for thimblerigs
- beats,
- bilks,
- bleeds,
- cheats,
- chisels,
- chouses,
- cons,
- cozens,
- defrauds,
- diddles,
- does,
- does in,
- euchres,
- fiddles,
- fleeces,
- flimflams,
- gaffs,
- hoses
- [slang],
- hustles,
- mulcts,
- nobbles
- [British slang],
- plucks,
- reams,
- rips off,
- rooks,
- screws,
- shakes down,
- shortchanges,
- shorts,
- skins,
- skunks,
- squeezes,
- sticks,
- stiffs,
- stings,
- suckers,
- swindles,
- victimizes
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thimblerigs
nounplural of thimblerig
Synonyms of thimblerigs (Entry 2 of 2)
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