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- noun Plural form of
thimblerigger .
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Examples
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With thimbleriggers, professional beggars and suitcases full of somersaulting toy dogs.
Deadheading 2010
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But the park's management sent a series of strolling entertainers to work the line jugglers, clowns, antigrav dancers, musicians, thimbleriggers, and snack vendors-so the crowd wouldn't notice its slow progress.
Phule me twice Asprin, Robert 2001
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Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher's dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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The crowd bawls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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They're all crooked front-runners and thimbleriggers.
Latest Articles 2009
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Dicers and thimbleriggers we hurried by after the hoofs, the vying caps and jackets and past the meatfaced woman, a butcher’s dame, nuzzling thirstily her clove of orange.
Ulysses 2003
brtom commented on the word thimbleriggers
"The crowd bowls of dicers, crown and anchor players, thimbleriggers, broadsmen." Joyce, Ulysses, 15
January 1, 2008