trick
1. Noun: - A cunning or deceitful action intended to deceive someone: An act designed to cheat, fool, or outwit another person. - A mischievous or playful act; a prank: A practical joke or harmless piece of mischief. - A skillful or clever act, especially one intended to entertain: A feat of skill or illusion, such as in magic or performance. - A particular habit or mannerism: A characteristic or peculiar way of doing something. - (Card Games) The cards played in a single round: In games like bridge, the group of cards played by each person in turn, with one card winning the round.
2. Verb: - To deceive or cheat someone: To use cunning or deceit to make someone believe something that is not true or to act against their own interest.
- Noun (Deceitful Action):
- He used a clever trick to win the negotiation.
- The scam was based on an old trick to get people's bank details.
- Noun (Prank):
- The children played a trick on their teacher by hiding his chalk.
- Putting salt in the sugar bowl is a mean trick.
- Noun (Skillful Act):
- The magician performed an amazing card trick.
- My dog knows a lot of tricks, like rolling over and playing dead.
- Noun (Habit):
- She has a trick of twirling her hair when she's thinking.
- Verb:
- They tricked me into believing the party was cancelled.
- You can't trick the system; it has strong security.
- "to do the trick": to be effective in achieving the desired result.
- A little more glue should do the trick and hold it together.
- "to be up to one's (old) tricks": to be behaving in a characteristic, often mischievous or deceitful, way again.
- I see the cat is up to its old tricks, trying to steal food from the counter.
- "a trick of the light": an illusion created by the way light falls on something.
- It looked like a face in the window, but it was just a trick of the light.
- Tricky (adj): Difficult to deal with or requiring careful handling; also, deceitful or crafty.
- The exam had some very tricky questions.
- He's a tricky character, not to be trusted.
- Trickery (n): The practice of deception.
- The contract was obtained through trickery and lies.
- Trickster (n): A person who cheats or deceives people.
- In the story, the fox is a clever trickster.
- Noun (Deceit): Deception, ruse, stratagem, ploy, hoax.
- Noun (Prank): Joke, prank, practical joke, gag.
- Verb: Deceive, fool, dupe, hoodwink, mislead.
- Trick into: To deceive someone so that they do something.
- She was tricked into signing the document.
- Trick out of: To deceive someone in order to obtain something from them.
- He was tricked out of his life savings by a fake investment scheme.
- Every trick in the book: Every possible method, whether fair or unfair.
- She used every trick in the book to get that promotion.
- How's tricks?: (Informal) A casual greeting meaning "How are you?" or "How are things?"
- Hey John, long time no see. How's tricks?
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(card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
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a prostitute's customer
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an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
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a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
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an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
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that offer was a dirty trick
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a period of work or duty
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a cunning or deceitful action or device
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he played a trick on me
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he pulled a fast one and got away with it
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deceive somebody
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We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week
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