1. (n.) A sleight-of-hand trick played with three small cups, shaped like thimbles, and a small ball or little pea.

2. (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick.

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