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trick
  1. Something designed to fool or swindle.
  2. A single piece of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
  3. An entertaining difficult physical action.
  4. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
  5. Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
  6. (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
  7. A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
  8. (card game) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
  9. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
  10. (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
  11. A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
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  13. Examples:
    1. “Few may have been deceived the first time, but it appears that the same trick is still being used over and over again.”
      “It was too good to be true, and I desperately prayed that it wasn't just someone playing a trick on me.”
      “We do our usual trick of ignoring him completely, and he returns the favor by declining even to acknowledge our existence.”
trickster
  1. (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others; any similar figure in literature.
  2. One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
  3. One who performs tricks (parts of a magician' act or entertaining difficult physical actions).
  4. An impish or playful person.
  5. A fraud (person who performs a trick for the purpose of unlawful gain).
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  7. Examples:
    1. “In the upper central area is a joker figure, a trickster whose red-lipped grin betokens some undefined menace.”
      “The audience views the magician as an entertaining trickster and quite happily sees the performance as nothing more than a puzzle.”
      “Probably the most well-known twentieth-century trickster, Shine is an epic figure in African American folklore.”
trickery
  1. (uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
  2. (uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
  3. (uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
  4. (countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
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  6. Examples:
    1. “It took me a long time to see any form of rhetoric as more than trickery which played upon the accidents of language.”
      “But a demo or live show takes the musician out of the safety net of retakes and production trickery that a recording studio provides.”
      “I think you can use rough interrogation, you may be able to use trickery, questions.”
trickle
  1. A very thin river.
  2. A very thin flow; the act of trickling.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “A small trickle of blood wound its way along his palm, emanating from a fine slice in his skin that was deep enough to have been caused by a razor.”
tricker
  1. One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They're equal-opportunity trickers of plutocrats and pensioners alike.”
      “Things are rather tricker if one object creates another and the creator is the one you want to test.”
      “But if he has come to terms with the remnants of empire, others find equilibrium much tricker to get to.”
tricksterism
  1. The use of a trickster character in folk literature.
tricklining
  1. A form of slacklining involving tricks and stunts.
tricknology
  1. (derogatory) technology used for purposes of trickery
trickdom
  1. (rare) the world or realm of tricks
tricksiness
  1. The state or condition of being tricksy.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “It seems at times as if Malkani is enjoying his linguistic tricksiness so much he just can't stop himself.”
      “The shifting set apart, the director Joe Dowling eschews any tricksiness, instead concentrating on making the most of his talented cast.”
      “I found them both coherent, lively and strange, though not without a touch of that mannered tricksiness you so often find in physical theatre.”
tricking
trickishness
  1. The quality of being trickish.
trickiness
  1. The quality of being tricky.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The trickiness of his actions was evident when he completely altered the contract without informing anyone.”
      “The trickiness of the puzzle increased as I reached the last few pieces.”
      “But unlike Mr. Jack I was neither a doctor nor a surgeon, and thus I was unequipped to deal with the trickiness of human anatomy.”
trickling
trickeration
  1. (humorous) Trickery.
tricker
  1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A trigger.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They're equal-opportunity trickers of plutocrats and pensioners alike.”
      “Things are rather tricker if one object creates another and the creator is the one you want to test.”
      “But if he has come to terms with the remnants of empire, others find equilibrium much tricker to get to.”
trickerations
  1. plural of trickeration
tricksinesses
tricknologies
  1. plural of tricknology
trickinesses
tricklings
tricksters
  1. plural of trickster
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Between the four of you, you must trick the tricksters, fool the foolers, and outwit the outwitters.”
      “In the meantime, tricksters are now aware the end of the golden weather is nigh.”
      “A quick-witted charity worker escaped the clutches of telephone tricksters following a warning from his residents' association.”
trickings
trickeries
  1. plural of trickery
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Temperamentally conservative, he avoids obvious social commentary, and he has shunned the lately popular trickeries of digital manipulation.”
      “Deficits, obfuscations and trickeries that were once unthinkable are now the norm.”
      “Only by doing so can the church of God survive all the trickeries of Satan and follow Him spiritually.”
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