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Definition of Thimblerigged
1. thimblerig [v] - See also: thimblerig
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thimblerigged
Literary usage of Thimblerigged
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the United States Since the Civil War by Ellis Paxson Oberholtzer (1922)
"thimblerigged ment no easier to bear.1 But no regret or recrimination ...
They believed, with some justice, that they had been thimblerigged and they were ..."
2. The Earl of Derby by George Saintsbury (1892)
"... they plotted against Grey himself, and drove him to resign by their disloyal
conduct in regard to the Coercion Act. In short, they thimblerigged Grey as ..."
3. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank: Reprinted Verbatim from "The by William Makepeace Thackeray, W. E. Church (1884)
"Is any man so blind that he cannot see the exact face that is writhing under the
thimblerigged hero's hat ? ..."
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