shills

См. также в других словарях:

• Shills — This unusual name is Scottish, and topographical in origin. It is mainly from the border region, and derived from the Middle English word schele , equivalent to the Old Norse word skali , meaning a shed or hut, specifically a shepherd s summer… …   Surnames reference

• shills — n. one who poses as a customer in order to lure other customers (in gambling houses, games of chance, etc.) …   English contemporary dictionary

• Shill — A shill is an associate of a person selling goods or services or a political group, who pretends no association to the seller/group and assumes the air of an enthusiastic customer. The intention of the shill is, using crowd psychology, to… …   Wikipedia

• Three-card Monte — Three card Monte, also known as the Three card marney, Three card trick, Three card shuffle, Triplets, Follow the lady, Find the lady, or Follow the Bee is a confidence game in which the victim, or mark, is tricked into betting a sum of money… …   Wikipedia

• 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

• Kosovo Liberation Army — Kosovo Liberation Army/ National Army (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës) Participant in Kosovo War Active 1996 …   Wikipedia

• Dana Rohrabacher — Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California s 46th district Incumbent Assumed office …   Wikipedia

• Functionalism (sociology) — In the social sciences, specifically sociology and sociocultural anthropology, functionalism (also called functional analysis) is a sociological paradigm that originally attempted to explain social institutions as collective means to fill… …   Wikipedia

• Confidence trick — Con games redirects here. For the film, see Con Games (film). Scam redirects here. For other uses, see Scam (disambiguation). For the short story by John Wyndham, see Jizzle. A confidence trick is an attempt to defraud a person or group by… …   Wikipedia

• Chuck Norris — Norris signing a T shirt for a Marine on a stop on his tour of Al Anbar Governorate ( …   Wikipedia

• Fast and Loose (con game) — Fast and Loose is a cheating game played at fairs by sharpers. Also known as Pricking the Garter (Renaissance), The Strap (1930 con man argot), and The Old Army Game (World War II). In older periods, the leather or cloth webbing garters that men… …   Wikipedia