three-card trick


noun

a game in which players bet on which of three inverted playing cards is the queen

Example sentences from the Web for three-card trick

  • Who caught them three-card-trick men after the Lewes races last year?

    The Man Who Knew |Edgar Wallace
  • It is disagreeable in the same way as discovering a three-card-trick man among a decent lot of folk in a third-class compartment.

    A Personal Record |Joseph Conrad