a : a crafty procedure or exercise meant to deceive or defraud b : a mischievous act : prank c : a misleading, dexterous, or ingenious feat especially : a person built to puzzle or amuse a juggler's tricks
There are 26 meanings mentioned in OED's entry for the noun trick, certainly one of which can be labelled obsolete. See ‘Which means & use’ for definitions, utilization, and quotation evidence.
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an action that is intended to deceive, either like a strategy for dishonest a person, or as being a joke or kind of amusement:
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deceive for making anyone consider something which is just not real, Specially any individual who trusts you, as a way to get what you want:
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Synonyms cheatcheatfool ▪ deceive ▪ betray ▪ acquire in ▪ trick ▪ conThese phrases all indicate to make someone believe that a thing that isn't real, particularly in buy for getting what you wish.
choose any person in [typically passive] to produce anyone believe that something that is not really genuine, typically in order to get what you need:
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fool to generate any individual consider something which is just not real, particularly in order to snicker at them or for getting what you need:
one-trick ponies trick somebody into some thing trick someone out of something trick somebody into doing something trick any person/a thing out (in a thing) trick any individual/one thing out (with one thing) every single trick from the e-book he, she, etc. doesn’t miss out on a trick See a lot more Phrasal verbs