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单词 three-card monte
释义

three-card monte

noun

ˈthrē-ˈkärd- How to pronounce three-card monte (audio)
: a gambling game in which the dealer shows three cards, shuffles them, places them face down, and invites spectators to bet they can identify the location of a particular card

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Crime plummeted, corporate profits soared, and three-card monte dealers in Times Square gave way to Disney characters. Devlin Barrett, Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2022 The Golden State Warriors coach shuffled his kings and knights and pawns Saturday night, making slick moves like a guy dealing three-card monte on a street corner — to mix game metaphors — and the Memphis Grizzlies are reeling. Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 May 2022 Just like in three-card monte, everyone wins except the mark. Robert Pearl, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021 Topdog/Underdog For Ubuntu Theater Project, Dorian Lockett and Michael Curry star in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers Lincoln and Booth, one who works as a Lincoln impersonator, the other who deals three-card monte. Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 June 2018 Topdog/Underdog For Ubuntu Theater Project, Dorian Lockett and Michael Curry star in Suzan-Lori Parks’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about brothers Lincoln and Booth, one who works as a Lincoln impersonator, the other who deals three-card Monte. Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 May 2018 That fellow in the picture who, in my thinking, appears to be dealing a game of three-card monte, is former Democratic state Sen. Jeremy Ring of Parkland. Dan Sweeney, Sun-Sentinel.com, 24 Jan. 2018 New Orleans watched for months as the top three candidates for mayor shuffled to the lead in poll after poll like a game of three-card Monte, deceiving anyone who thought a favorite would emerge. Richard Rainey, NOLA.com, 17 Oct. 2017 And now, 40-odd years later, their achievements are under assault from a gaggle of lightweights and a president-elect whose only apparent political skill is the equivalent of a three-card monte game on the E train. Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 17 Jan. 2017 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1854, in the meaning defined above

three-card monte

noun

as in thimblerig

Synonyms & Similar Words

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