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tricknoun a clever often underhanded means to achieve an endher husband used every trick in the book to get out of appearing in his parish's fashion show artifice, device, dodge, fetch, flimflam, gambit, gimmick, jig, juggle, knack, play, ploy, ruse, scheme, shenanigan, sleight, stratagem, wile bluff, end run, feintcheating, chicanery, cozenage, craft, crookery, cunning, deception, dupery, duplicity, fakery, jugglery, legerdemain, skulduggery(or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickeryfraud, gaff, hoax, sham, swindleblind, front, smoke screen sleight of hand a playful or mischievous act intended as a jokethought that gluing the silver dollar to the floor and watching him struggle to pick it up would be a good trick antic, caper, capriccio, dido, escapade, frolic, gag, jest, knavery, monkeyshine(s), practical joke, prank, rag(chiefly British), roguery, shavie(Scottish), shine(s), waggery skylarkingadventure, experience, game, lark, timehigh jinks(also hijinks), horseplay, play, roughhousing, rowdyismshenanigan(s), tomfooleryjoking, kidding, teasinggambit, hoax, maneuver, ploydeed, feat, mission, performance, stuntcaprice, conceit, fancy, vagary, whim, whimsy(also whimsey)deceit, deception, delusion, fooling, fraud, hanky-panky, hoodwinking, ruse, sham, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wile a usual manner of behaving or doingthat deadbeat is up to his usual tricks: once again he's claiming the check is in the mail custom, fashion, habit, habitude, pattern, practice(also practise), ritual, second nature, way, wont addictiondispositionbent, inclination, proclivity, set, tendency, tenor, turnbag, convention, form, mode, styleusage, usedeportment, manners, moresdrill, groove, jog trot, regime(also régime), regimen, rote, routine, rutaffectation, airs, poseattribute, characteristic, mark, traiteccentricity, kink, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, singularity, tic an act of notable skill, strength, or clevernessit'd be quite a trick to hit that target from here deed, exploit, feat, number, stunt, tour de force accomplishment, achievement, attainment, coup, success, triumphadventureperformance an odd or peculiar habita dog with the trick of eating cabbage crotchet, curiosity, eccentricity, erraticism, idiosyncrasy, individualism, kink, mannerism, oddity, peculiarity, quiddity, quip, quirk, singularity, tic, twist affectation, airsattribute, characteristic, mark, property, traitcustom, habit, pattern, practice(also practise), way, wontaddictionabnormality, neuroticism, perversion, weirdnessdisposition, genius, leaning, partialitybent, inclination, penchant, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, tendency, turnattitude, character, humor, identity, individuality, nature, personality, temperament conformity, sameness trickverbto cause to believe what is untrueyou tricked me into thinking my ex wasn't coming to the party tonight bamboozle, beguile, bluff, buffalo, burn, catch, con, cozen, deceive, delude, dupe, fake out, fool, gaff, gammon, gull, have, have on(chiefly British), hoax, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, juggle, misguide, misinform, mislead, snooker, snow, spoof, string along, suck in, sucker, take in kid, put on, teasebleed, cheat, chisel, defraud, diddle, euchre, fleece, flimflam, gyp, hustle, mulct, rook, shortchange, skin, squeeze, stick, sting, swindle do a number on, lead one down the garden path(also lead one up the garden path), pull one's leg, pull the wool over one's eyes undeceive debunk, expose, reveal, show up, uncloak, uncover, unmaskdisclose, divulge, tell, unveildisabuse, disenchant, disillusion n.trick, ruse, stratagem, maneuver, artifice, wile, feint mean an indirect means to gain an end.trick may imply deception, roguishness, illusion, and either an evil or harmless end.the tricks of the trade ruse stresses an attempt to mislead by a false impression.the ruses of smugglers stratagem implies a ruse used to entrap, outwit, circumvent, or surprise an opponent or enemy.the stratagem-filled game maneuver suggests adroit and skillful avoidance of difficulty.last-minute maneuvers to avert bankruptcy artifice implies ingenious contrivance or invention.the clever artifices of the stage wile suggests an attempt to entrap or deceive with false allurements.used all of his wiles to ingratiate himself feint implies a diversion or distraction of attention away from one's real intent.a feint toward the enemy's left flank in the 15th century |