Green’s Dictionary of Slang

of a contest, manipulated or set-up.

1903		A.H. Lewis Boss 370: That Blackberry fellow had the market rigged.
1950		Goldin et al. DAUL 177/2: Rigged joint. A crooked gambling house or carnival concession, especially the gambling wheels.
1959		D. Niland Big Smoke 32: I don’t know how he ever beat Burns. If you ask me it was rigged.
1965		W. Dick Bunch of Ratbags 194: I was a bloke who didn’t like losing, especially to a rigged-up machine. That was for the birds, not me.
1981		J. Ellroy Brown’s Requiem 35: He has pimped, supplied rigged game shows with ‘contestants’.
1997		C. Hiaasen Lucky You 20: He didn’t understand how the lottery could be rigged.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 192: [R]ipping them off with a rigged boxing match.