as in to cheat
to rob by the use of trickery or threats
had the feeling that I had just been thimblerigged by the sweetest-looking old lady
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as in three-card monte
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Verb
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There’s a scene where the duo is trying to get their rent money back from Alyssa’s conniving and cheating boyfriend, which perfectly encapsulates the blend of wit and physical comedy that makes the film so memorable.—
Shelby Stewart,
Essence,
21 Jan. 2025 -
West Virginia was also willing to cheat off of Keshon Gilbert.—
CJ Moore,
The Athletic,
20 Jan. 2025
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Smith, according to law enforcement, was basically playing three-card monte with wire transfers and bogus bank statements to help cover his high times and high-risk investments.—
Neal Rubin,
Detroit Free Press,
8 June 2024
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Or can one side be played as a sucker during a game of three-card monte on the sidewalk outside the dingy bus terminal?—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
11 Feb. 2024
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Use a fire extinguisher by pulling the pin, aiming at the base of the fire, squeezing the lever slowly and sweeping the nozzle side to side For a grease fire, try to cover the flames with a lid or pan to snuff them out.—
Eleanor Nash,
Kansas City Star,
23 Jan. 2025
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Jair Bolsonaro’s Stay-Out-of-Jail Card: The former Brazilian president, squeezed by criminal investigations, is looking to Trump, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg to shift his nation’s politics — and maybe keep him a free man.—
Ruth Maclean,
New York Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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Our society is a pyramid scheme, with the young supporting the old.—
Emma Green,
The New Yorker,
23 Sep. 2024
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There’s a whole pyramid scheme of sorts, and there’s all these other parts of the book that didn’t fit into this story.—
Kate Erbland,
IndieWire,
9 Sep. 2024
Verb
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For Hodge, having to squat naked and pluck out her eye was nothing compared with what would follow.—
Julie K. Brown,
Miami Herald,
23 Jan. 2025
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More than 750 northern tidewater gobies were plucked from a lagoon ravaged by the Palisades fire and transferred to aquariums.—
Lila Seidman,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Jan. 2025
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But when the initial concept struggled, the duo faked bank records and continued to woo investors, creating what eventually became a Ponzi scheme.—
Sharon Bernstein,
Sacramento Bee,
7 Jan. 2025
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The fraud was the largest Ponzi scheme in history, with nearly 41,000 recipients ultimately qualified for payments from the Madoff Victim Fund.—
Brady Dale,
Axios,
30 Dec. 2024
Verb
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With a zero-to-60 time below 4 seconds, a quarter-mile time around 12 seconds, and a 155 mph top speed, the coupe clearly hustles.—
Karl Brauer,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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In this raucous odyssey a wanton minx quests hard across a dreamy landscape of smut, filth and psychics, hustling to lift a curse that has been f*cking her sh*t up.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
22 Jan. 2025
Noun
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In a toast, one of his neighbors gently mocks him for the racket he’s made while constructing an underground fallout shelter.—
Daniel A. Gross,
The New Yorker,
17 Jan. 2025
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When Bencic finished off the set in a tiebreak, Osaka motioned to her box, stuffed her rackets in her bag and headed off the court.—
Matthew Futterman,
The Athletic,
16 Jan. 2025
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