Trick

Adjective

 * 1)  Something that is unusually stylish or cool.
 * Wow, your new sportscar is so trick.

Noun

 * 1) Something designed to fool or swindle.
 * It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced.
 * 1) A single piece (or business) of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act.
 * And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.
 * 1) An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
 * Tricks of the trade. What's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?
 * 1)  A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
 * I was able to take the second trick with the heart queen.
 * 1)  An act of prostitution.  Generally used with turn.
 * At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day.
 * 1)  A customer to a prostitute.
 * As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."
 * 1) An entertaining or difficult physical action.
 * That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it?
 * 1) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
 * 2) * 1885, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman, page 496:
 * On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.
 * 1) * 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
 * Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick $60, second trick $60, third trick $50.
 * 1) * 1949, Labor arbitration reports, page 738:
 * The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

Synonyms

 * con, ploy, rip-off
 * illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand
 * john
 * artifice, ploy, gambit
 * See also Thesaurus:deception

Verb

 * 1)  To fool; to cause to believe something untrue.
 * You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.

Synonyms

 * con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off
 * mod
 * See also Thesaurus:deceive

Derived terms

 * trick out

Adjectives for Trick
psychological; innocent; hideous; juggling; juvenile; perfidious; foremost; scurvy; forgotten; unwarrantable; commercial; ultramontane; pretty; strategic; singular; sardonic; harsh; perverse; ingenious; admiration; momentary; raw; artistic; speeding; ceremonious; unconsidered; shy; mad; fantastical; innate; nasty; extra; cowardly; abominable; ugly; amusing; political; unbecoming; barbarous; stage; trashy; unworthy; fascinating; mathematical; valorous; favorite; villainous; practical.

Verbs for Trick
concoct—; contrive—; devise—; discern—; disclose—; hatch—; master—; perform—; perpetrate—; practise—; reveal—; spring —; study—; —ambushes; —baffles; —bewilders; —bores; —confounds; —deceives; —defrauds; —deludes;  —mystifies;  — amuses.

Adverbs for Trick
ridiculously; mystifyingly; deftly; unscrupulously; psychologically; perfidiously; singularly; sardonically; ingeniously; amusingly; mathematically; villainously; practically; politically.

Thesaurus
ability, accomplishment, ace, action, ad hoc measure, affectation, airy nothing, alibi, anchor watch, answer, antic, apology, aroma, art, artful dodge, artifice, attribute, autism, automatism, bad habit, badge, bag of tricks, bamboozle, be effective, befool, beguile, best bower, betray, bilk, bit, blind, bluff, bosey, bower, brand, bubble, cabal, cachet, cajole, cantrip, caper, cards, cast, catch, catchy, character, characteristic, cheat, cheat on, chicane, chicanery, chimera, chouse, circumvent, cloak, clubs, collusion, color, command of language, complicity, complot, con, confederacy, configuration, conjure, connivance, conspiracy, contrivance, contriving, countermove, counterplot, coup, course of action, cover, cover story, cover-up, covin, cozen, craft, creature of habit, crotchet, curve, curve-ball, custom, cut, cute trick, day shift, daydream, deceit, deceive, deception, deck, deed, deep-laid plot, defective, defraud, delude, deluded belief, delusion, demarche, dereism, design, deuce, device, diamonds, diddle, dido, differentia, differential, dirty deal, dirty trick, distinctive feature, do the trick, dodge, dogwatch, double-cross, dream, dream vision, dreamland, dreamworld, dummy, dupe, earmark, eccentricity, effort, engineering, exaggeration, excuse, expedient, expression of ideas, facade, face cards, fake out, fakement, false belief, fashion, fast deal, feat, feature, feel, feeling for words, feint, fetch, ficelle, figure, fill the bill, finagling, finesse, flavor, flimflam, flush, foible, fool, force of habit, forestall, form of speech, frame-up, fraud, frolic, front, full house, full time, gag, gambit, game, gammon, get around, gift, gimmick, gloss, googly, grace of expression, grandiloquence, graveyard shift, grift, guise, gull, gust, habit, habit pattern, habitude, half time, hallmark, hand, handle, hang, have, hearts, hoax, hocus-pocus, hoodwink, hornswaggle, horseplay, humbug, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, ignis fatuus, illusion, imposture, impress, impression, improvisation, index, individualism, inflation, insecure, intrigue, jack, jape, jig, joker, juggle, jugglery, jury-rig, jury-rigged expedient, keynote, kid, king, knack, knave, knavery, lame excuse, last expedient, last resort, last shift, left bower, leg-pull, legerdemain, let down, lineaments, literary style, little game, lobster trick, locus standi, machination, magic, make merry with, makeshift, maneuver, maneuvering, manipulation, manner, manner of speaking, mannerism, mark, marking, mask, means, measure, minauderie, misbelief, mischief, misconception, misguide, misinform, mislead, mock, mode, mode of expression, mold, monkeyshines, move, nature, night shift, odor, ostensible motive, outmaneuver, outreach, outsmart, outwit, overreach, overtime, pack, pair, part time, particularity, pass, pattern, peculiar trait, peculiarity, personal style, picture cards, pigeon, pipe dream, pis aller, play one false, play pranks, play tricks, playing cards, plot, plotting, ploy, poor excuse, practical joke, practice, prank, praxis, pretense, pretension, pretext, property, protestation, public motive, put one on, put something over, put-off, quality, queen, quirk, racket, red herring, refuge, relay, resort, resource, rhetoric, rigging, rook, round, royal flush, rubber, ruff, ruse, savor, scheme, schemery, scheming, screen, scurvy trick, seal, second nature, secret, self-deceit, self-deception, self-delusion, semblance, shake-up, shaky, sham, shape, shenanigans, shift, show, singleton, singularity, skill, sleight, sleight of hand, sleight-of-hand trick, smack, smoke screen, snow, solution, spades, specialty, split schedule, split shift, spoof, sport, stalking-horse, stamp, step, stereotype, stereotyped behavior, stint, stopgap, straight, strain, stratagem, strategy, string along, stroke, stroke of policy, stunt, style, stylistic analysis, stylistics, subterfuge, suffice, sunrise watch, swindle, swing shift, tactic, taint, take, take in, tang, taste, technique, temporary expedient, the grand style, the plain style, the sublime, time, token, tomfoolery, touch, touchy, tour, tour of duty, trademark, trait, trey, trick of behavior, trickery, tricky, trip, trump, turn, turn of work, turn the trick, twist and turn, two-time, undependable, underplot, unreliable, unstable, untrustworthy, usage, use, vapor, varnish, veil, vein, victimize, waggish trick, watch, way, weakness, web of intrigue, wile, wily device, wire-pulling, wont, work, work shift, working hypothesis, working proposition, wrong impression

Etymology
Either from trique: (related to 🇫🇴 trichier:; French: tricher:), of  origin, from  trechen:; Or from  trek: from trekken:, from  trekken:, treken:, from  *undefined:, *undefined:, from, from. Cognate with trekken:,  trecken:, trechen:,  trække:, and  trekka:. Compare, , , and.

Noun

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 * Estonian: vemp, temp, trikk
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 * Portuguese: artimanha, truque, artimanha
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 * Telugu: జిత్తు (jittu)


 * German: Trick, Kunststück
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 * Swedish: trick, trolleritrick , trollkonst
 * Telugu: కనికట్టు (kanikaTTu), ఇంద్రజాలం (iMdrajaalaM)


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Verb

 * Catalan: enganyar
 * Finnish:, , , juksata, höynäyttää, vedättää
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 * German: austricksen, überlisten,
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Derived terms

 * do the trick
 * cheap trick
 * dirty trick
 * hat trick
 * how's tricks?
 * Jedi mind tricks


 * magic trick
 * trick out
 * trick or treat
 * trick point
 * trick shot
 * tricky


 * trickster, tricker
 * turn a trick, turn tricks
 * trickery
 * fancy trick