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Meaning of three-card monte | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

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.

uncountable, usually

Equivalents

Deutsch Kümmelblättchen

Français bonneteau

Examples

“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.”

CEFR level

B2

Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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See also

three-card shuffle three-card trick three-card trickster three-center two-electron bond three-cornered jack three-cueing

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