Synonyms for shell game


Grammar : Noun


Définition of shell game

  • noun confidence game
Example sentences :
  • Where would you find a man to run your shell game while you was gone?
  • Extract from : « Plowing On Sunday » by Sterling North
  • My impression was that if he had said "shell game" he would have more accurately stated his case.
  • Extract from : « Northern Nut Growers Association Thirty-Fourth Annual Report 1943 » by Various
  • But the operator of the shell game had caught sight of the bills, and it was like the scent of blood to the tiger.
  • Extract from : « The heart of happy hollow » by Paul Laurence Dunbar
  • One chap a navigator, able to sail a ship round the Horn, and yet he prefers to play the shell game at rural fairs.
  • Extract from : « Blacksheep! Blacksheep! » by Meredith Nicholson
  • You see,” he explained, moving to the washstand, “this shell game is easy enough when you know how.
  • Extract from : « Philo Gubb Correspondence-School Detective » by Ellis Parker Butler

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