trick
IPA: trˈɪk
noun
- Something designed to fool or swindle.
- A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.
- An entertaining difficult physical action.
- An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
- Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.
- (dated) A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.
- A knot, braid, or plait of hair.
- (card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.
- (slang) A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.
- (slang) A customer or client of a prostitute.
- (slang, vulgar) A term of abuse.
- (Western Pennsylvania) A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
- (nautical) A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.
- (obsolete) A toy; a trifle; a plaything.
- (heraldry) A representation of arms that is drawn as an outline with labels to indicate colors.
verb
- (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
- (heraldry) To draw (as contrasted with to blazon, which is to describe in words).
- To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
- To engage in prostitution or casual sex.
adjective
- Involving trickery or deception.
- Able to perform tricks.
- Defective or unreliable.
- (chiefly US, slang) Stylish or cool.
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Examples of "trick" in Sentences
- The man used delusive tricks.
- He is good at tricks and knavery.
- The magic trick belied the people.
- The trick was idiotic and childish.
- The bidder leads to the first trick.
- The Nigerian scam is the oldest trick.
- The fisherman decided to trick the Jinni.
- The foil is actually essential to the trick.
- In fact, it was a sleight of hand and magic trick.
- His remuneration is revealing the secrets of a magic trick.
- I think the trick is adding an element of bad intentions or sinisterness.
- This trick is a little hacky, but it gets the job done on busy Finder sidebars.
- We all want the best of both worlds, but the trick is the "without alienating" part.
- So the log files give you the opportunity to be more accurate – but the trick is actually getting the level of accuracy up.
- The main trick is to have a currency that - unlike dollars, which are lent into existence by a bank - is instead worked into existence through an exchange.
- I would point out, for example, that the term trick, is often used in science to describe a clever way to get around a difficulty that is perfectly legitimate.
- It makes you write word after word of thought, as I am doing this instant, the trick is being aware that you are aware of this happening, like a witness to its madness.
- The magic behind the trick is assigning a transparent icon to a shortcut and then pinning that shortcut to the taskbar as a spacer in between to sets of icons you want to keep separate.
- Theists are completely anthropocentric, since their main trick is to project themselves onto the cosmos, an insistence that something like a human self is at the core of the universe, no matter that observation tells us quite a different story.