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pigeon drop
noun
a swindle in which two confederates pretend to find a wallet and convince a third person to share in the proceeds of the find US, 1940- You some kind of confidence man or dope peddler or something? You trying to work one of those pigeon drops on me? — Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, p. 330, 1947
- Artifice became my bible, as I learned how to play stuff, the shell game, pigeon drop and three card molly. — Donald Goines, Whoreson, p. 28, 1972
- What we did, ever so often we’d pull off the pigeon drop for maybe twenty-five dollars, with me planting the leather, or work the twenties for a five. — Guy Owen, The Flim-Flam Man and the Apprentice Grifter, p. 151, 1972
- The pigeon drop may have begun in China more than 400 years ago. — San Francisco Examiner, p. 40, 19 November 1976
- Spring you get your con games. Your pigeon drops, your Murphys[.] — Robert Campbell, The Cat’s Meow, p. 47, 1988
- He played the pigeon drop and did three Big Store cons. — Stephen J.L. Cannell, King Con, p. 35, 1997
- The victim of a “pigeon drop,” an old scam that police say has resurfaced, she gave $5,000 to two people with a fake lottery ticket. — Palm Beach (Florida) Post, p. 2B, 31 Januay 2004
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