Usually means: Deceptive gambling game using cups.
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  1. shell game: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. shell game: Merriam-Webster
  3. shell game, shell game: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. shell game: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. shell game: Collins English Dictionary
  6. shell game: Vocabulary.com
  7. shell-game: Wordnik
  8. shell game: Wiktionary
  9. shell game: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. shell game: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. shell game: Dictionary.com
  12. Shell Game (TV series), Shell Game (short story), Shell game (disambiguation), Shell game, The Shell Game (disambiguation), The Shell Game (film), The Shell Game: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. shell game: Rhymezone
  14. shell game: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shell game: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shell game: TheFreeDictionary.com

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shell game: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See shell_games as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (shell game)

noun:  A game of skill which requires the bettor to guess which of three small cups (or shells) a pea-sized object is concealed under, after the party operating the game rapidly rearranges them, providing opportunity for sleight-of-hand trickery.
noun:  Any confidence scheme, especially one involving the rapid movement of investment funds to a location beyond recovery.

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