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three-card monte
[three-kahrd]
noun
a gambling game in which the players are shown three cards and bet that they can identify one particular card of the three, as stipulated by the dealer, after the cards have been moved around face down by the dealer.
a form of three-card stud poker.
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of three-card monte1
Example Sentences
His three-card monte skills are storied in the neighborhood, but he’s determined to proceed down the straight and narrow.
Yet racing, at times, plays its fatality numbers as if it were a game of three-card monte.
But these dynamics are uncertain in a play that treats identity like a game of three-card monte.
Just as any three-card monte con artist depends on a crowd salted with shills, political grifters use the diversionary tactics of red/blue divisions — our guy may be bad, but your guy is worse.
Zooming out a little, the entire right-wing media infrastructure is a game of three-card monte.
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