three-card monte en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) A confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money that they can find the money card, for example the queen of hearts, among three face-down playing cards.
A starry 20th-anniversary revival of “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize-winning fable about two brothers, three-card monte and one troubling inheritance, is in previews on Broadway.
2022 October 5, Michael Paulson, “Suzan-Lori Parks Is on Broadway, Off Broadway and Everywhere Else”, in The New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| three-card montes | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
Synonyms
three-card trick · find the lady · follow the bee · three-way · three-card shuffle · menage-a-card · triplets · follow the lady · three-card marney
Translations (5)
fr bonneteau (confidence trick) · de Kümmelblättchen (confidence trick) · pl benkiel (confidence trick) · pl trzy kubki (confidence trick) · pl trzy karty (confidence trick)