monte
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- noun
- /ˈmɒnteɪ/
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monte
- I guess shilling for the three-card monte dealers teaches you something.
I mean, I think it's one thing to scam if you're like broke on the street, you know when you're playing three card Monte to like live.
- I mean, I think it's one thing to scam if you're like broke on the street, you know when you're playing three card Monte to like live.
Examples
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If you want to play some three-card monte, Ash, we can play some three-card monte.
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Hey, you playing three-card monte with those kids again?
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As I see it, the system is a game of three-card monte.
Blog text (27) -
Outside, gamers laid cardboard on the ground to play three-card monte.
Fiction book (1992) -
Fifteen or two dozen players begin it with a two- or five-dollar limit, playing necessarily three-card games like guts, monte, or acey-deucey.
Fiction book (1990) -
Count up all of the pyramid schemes and other racketeering, three-card monte nonsense, and you get something between $720T and $1Q (that's a thousand trillion.)
Blog text (26) -
In the park, a group of children gathered around as a man expertly performed a game of monte with three cards.
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During the fair, they had a booth where you could try your luck at monte, betting on which card would be revealed first.
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I watched as he played monte, trying to guess where the red card was hidden among the black ones.
Synonyms
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A street trick with three cards that makes people lose money
Compounds
Surface Forms
Etymology
Monte comes from the Spanish word monte meaning 'mountain' or 'heap', so think of a pile of cards or money on the table. That's why the card game monte is named for the 'heap' that players bet on.