Shell-game
noun
1.
a sleight-of-hand swindling game resembling thimblerig but employing walnut shells or the like instead of thimblelike cups.
2.
any deceit, swindle, fraud, or the like.
noun
1.
the US name for thimblerig
shellacking
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