Synonyms for trick
| Grammar : Noun, verb |
| Spell : trik |
| Phonetic Transcription : trɪk |
Top 10 synonyms for trick Other synonyms for the word trick
- ability
- ambush
- art
- artifice
- blind
- bluff
- bout
- caper
- casuistry
- catch
- cheat
- chicanery
- circumvention
- command
- con
- concealment
- conundrum
- cover
- craft
- crotchet
- custom
- decoy
- delusion
- disguise
- disinform
- dodge
- double deal
- double-dealing
- dupe
- duplicity
- equivocation
- escapade
- evasion
- fabrication
- facility
- fake
- falsehood
- feat
- feint
- flimflam
- foible
- forgery
- fraud
- frolic
- funny business
- gag
- gambol
- game
- gift
- gimmick
- go
- gull
- habitude
- hang
- hitch
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- hoodwink
- idiosyncrasy
- illusion
- impose upon
- imposition
- imposture
- intrigue
- invention
- jape
- jest
- jive
- knack
- lark
- machination
- maneuver
- manner
- mannerism
- method
- mislead
- monkeyshine
- outwit
- peculiarity
- perjury
- play for a fool
- plot
- ploy
- practical joke
- practice
- praxis
- pretense
- pull wool over
- put one over on
- put-on
- quirk
- rook
- ruse
- screw
- secret
- set up
- shenanigan
- shift
- skill
- sleight of hand
- snare
- spell
- sport
- stint
- stratagem
- stunt
- subterfuge
- swindle
- swing
- take for a ride
- take in
- technique
- throw
- tomfoolery
- tour
- trait
- trap
- treachery
- turn
- usage
- use
- victimize
- way
- wile
- wont
Définition of trick
Origin :- early 15c., "a cheat, a mean ruse," from Old North French trique "trick, deceit, treachery, cheating," from trikier "to deceive, to cheat," variant of Old French trichier, probably from Vulgar Latin *triccare, from Latin tricari "be evasive, shuffle," from tricæ "trifles, nonsense, a tangle of difficulties," of unknown origin.
- Meaning "a roguish prank" is recorded from 1580s; sense of "the art of doing something" is first attested 1610s. Meaning "prostitute's client" is first attested 1915; earlier it was U.S. slang for "a robbery" (1865). Trick-or-treat is recorded from 1942.
- noun deceit
- noun prank, joke
- noun expertise, know-how
- noun characteristic, habit
- noun time working at something
- verb fool; play joke on
- Clayton knew it very well, and the trick of examining the books was all a fudge.
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- Would you wish by trick or quibble to juggle me out of these last acres?
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- There are very many things which I cannot do, but there are also one or two which I have the trick of.
- Extract from : « The White Company » by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Now, the stool-pigeon in this trick is a swell English crook.
- Extract from : « Within the Law » by Marvin Dana
- But as we have nobody to act that part for us, I have decided upon playing him a trick of my own.
- Extract from : « The Imaginary Invalid » by Molire
- I had no words, but I remembered the trick he had taught me, about what to do when I met a Diné.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- But how's Alan goin' to turn the trick in a big field of rough ridin' b'ys?
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- A man in Gilroy, Ohio, would take the trick which decided the game.
- Extract from : « Chip, of the Flying U » by B. M. Bower
- The audience now had the appearance of one watching a juggler perform a trick.
- Extract from : « The Underdog » by F. Hopkinson Smith
- While Alberich boasted, he was planning how he might trick the dwarf and take his gold.
- Extract from : « Opera Stories from Wagner » by Florence Akin
Antonyms for trick
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