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• Shell game — For other uses, see Shell game (disambiguation). An illegal shell game performed with bottle caps on Fulton Street in New York City The shell game (also known as Thimblerig, Three shells and a pea, the old army game) is portrayed as a gambling… …   Wikipedia

• shell game — 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. [1885 90, Amer.] * * * ▪ magic trick also called  Cups And Balls Trick, … …   Universalium

• shell — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun 1 on eggs/nuts/some animals ADJECTIVE ▪ empty, hard, outer, protective, thick ▪ She had built up a protective shell around herself. (figurative) ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

• shell — {{11}}shell (n.) O.E. sciell, scill, Anglian scell seashell, eggshell, related to O.E. scealu shell, husk, from P.Gmc. *skaljo divide, separate (Cf. W.Fris. skyl peel, rind, M.L.G. schelle pod, rind, egg shell, Goth. skalja tile ), with the… …   Etymology dictionary

• pea — noun (C) 1 a large round green seed that is cooked and eaten as a vegetable: frozen peas | garden peas | pea soup | shell peas (=take them out of their seed container) 2 a plant that produces long green pods that contain these seeds 3 like two… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• pea — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ canned (esp. AmE), dried, fresh, frozen, tinned (BrE) ▪ green ▪ snow (AmE), sugar snap …   Collocations dictionary

• shell game — noun a) A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess under which of three small cups (or shells) a pea sized object has been placed after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight of hand… …   Wiktionary

• pea·nut — /ˈpiːˌnʌt/ noun, pl nuts 1 [count] : a nut with a thin shell that grows under the ground and that can be eaten roasted peanuts often used before another noun peanut oil ; called also (Brit) groundnut …   Useful english dictionary

• Snap pea — Infobox Cultivar | name = Cultivar Group Snap pea image width = 250px image caption = species = Pisum sativum group = Macrocarpon Group origin = ? subdivision = Many; see text.Snap peas (also known as Sugarsnap peas, or Mange touts in Britain)… …   Wikipedia

• black-eyed pea — noun 1. fruit or seed of the cowpea plant • Syn: ↑cowpea • Hypernyms: ↑legume • Part Holonyms: ↑cowpea, ↑cowpea plant, ↑Vigna unguiculata, ↑Vigna sinensis …   Useful english dictionary

• Partridge pea — Partridge Par tridge (p[aum]r tr[i^]j), n. [OE. partriche, pertriche, OF. pertris, perdriz, F. perdrix, L. perdix, icis, fr. Gr. pe rdix.] (Zo[ o]l.) 1. Any one of numerous species of small gallinaceous birds of the genus {Perdix} and several… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English