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trick

A magician performs a card trick for a small audience.

Definition

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.

Usage Examples
  • 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.
Advanced Usage
  • "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.
Variants and Related Words
  • 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.
Synonyms
  • Noun (Deceit): Deception, ruse, stratagem, ploy, hoax.
  • Noun (Prank): Joke, prank, practical joke, gag.
  • Verb: Deceive, fool, dupe, hoodwink, mislead.
Related Phrasal Verbs
  • 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.
Related Idioms
  • 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?
trick

A magician performs a card trick for a small audience.

Noun
  1. (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
  2. a prostitute's customer
  3. an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
  4. a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
  5. an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
    • that offer was a dirty trick
  6. a period of work or duty
  7. a cunning or deceitful action or device
    • he played a trick on me
    • he pulled a fast one and got away with it
Verb
  1. deceive somebody
    • We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week

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