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单词 charley-pitcher
释义 charley-pitcher slang.
A thimble-rigger.
1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 160 ‘Charley-pitchers,’ the knavish gentry who pursue the games of ‘under seven or over seven’, ‘red, black, leather and star’, or inveigle the unwary with ‘three little thimbles and one small pea’.1877Besant & Rice Son of Vulc. i. ix. 100 ‘Charley-pitchers’, who gained an honourable livelihood with the thimble and the pea.
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