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UK
/tɹˈɪk/
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[ US /ˈtɹɪk/ ]
[ US /ˈtɹɪk/ ]
NOUN
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a cunning or deceitful action or device
he played a trick on me
he pulled a fast one and got away with it - a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- a prostitute's customer
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an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent
that offer was a dirty trick - an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers
- (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner
- a period of work or duty
VERB
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deceive somebody
We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week
How To Use trick In A Sentence
- Three hours packed with a quick-fire century, a couple of bouncers, two-thirds of a hat-trick, a dropped catch, several bowled wickets and innumerable fours and sixers.
- The engine on the X-51, called a supersonic-combustion ramjet, or "scramjet," pulls off a couple of especially tricky tasks. When Supersonic Is Just Too Slow
- So much so that when he tried out a few of his character's screen tricks on his family, they put him firmly in his place. The Sun
- But there was an element of delusion, mild trickery even, about this process.
- Hesher (Director: Spencer Susser; Screenwriters: Spencer Susser and David Michod; Story by Brian Charles Frank) — A mysterious, anarchical trickster descends on the lives of a family struggling to deal with a painful loss. Sundance 2010 Competition Lineup Arrives, And Here Are Some Highlights » MTV Movies Blog
- Looking through the casement was the visage of the mariner, no longer stern, but moved with unutterable emotion, and tears, yes, tears trickling down his weather-beaten cheeks. Edward Barnett; a Neglected Child of South Carolina, Who Rose to Be a Peer of Great Britain,—and the Stormy Life of His Grandfather, Captain Williams or, The Earle's Victims: with an Account of the Terrible End of the Proud Earl De Montford, the Lamen
- The geography was utterly alien to Patrick, although his unfamiliarity with the picture could have been attributed to the gaps.
- Its heroes were beastly revellers or cruel and ferocious plunderers; its heroines unsexed hoidens, playing the ugliest tricks with their lovers, and repaying slights with bloody revenge, -- very dangerous and unsatisfactory companions for any other than the fire - eating Vikings and redhanded, unwashed Berserkers. The Conflict with Slavery and Others, Complete, Volume VII, The Works of Whittier: the Conflict with Slavery, Politics and Reform, the Inner Life and Criticism
- Probably the trickiest green on the course. The Sun
- It's an evolutionary trick to distract the pursuer, much as lizards lose their tails.