Synonyms for trick
trɪktrick

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1. trickverb

   Synonyms:
   mod

2. tricknoun

   Stylish or cool.

   You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.

   Synonyms:
   pull the wool over someones eyes, rip off, fool, gull, con, dupe, hoodwink, have, rip-off, ploy, john, artifice, gambit

3. tricknoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   gambit, ploy, artifice, con, john, rip-off

4. tricknoun

   An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

   Tricks of the trade. What's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?

   Synonyms:
   john, ploy, gambit, con, artifice, rip-off

5. tricknoun

   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.

   Synonyms:
   ploy, artifice, rip-off, gambit, con, john

6. tricknoun

   An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn.

   At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day.

   Synonyms:
   rip-off, ploy, artifice, gambit, con, john

7. tricknoun

   A customer to a prostitute.

   As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, Here comes another trick.

   Synonyms:
   artifice, gambit, con, john, ploy, rip-off

8. tricknoun

   An entertaining or difficult physical action.

   That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it?

   Synonyms:
   gambit, con, rip-off, artifice, john, ploy

9. tricknoun

   A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.

   Synonyms:
   rip-off, gambit, con, john, ploy, artifice

10. tricknoun

    Synonyms:
    sleight of hand, magic trick, illusion

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1. trick

   A contrivance or device may be either good or bad. A cheat is a mean advantage in a bargain; a fraud, any form of covert robbery or injury. Imposture is a deceitful contrivance for securing charity, credit, or consideration. A stratagem or maneuver may be of the good against the bad, as it were a skilful movement of war. A wile is usually but not necessarily evil.

   E'en children followed with endearing wile.

   Goldsmith Deserted Village, l. 184.

   A trick is often low, injurious, and malicious; we say a mean trick; the word is sometimes used playfully with less than its full meaning. A ruse or a blind may be quite innocent and harmless. An artifice is a carefully and delicately prepared contrivance for doing indirectly what one could not well do directly. A device is something studied out for promoting an end, as in a mechanism; the word is used of indirect action, often, but not necessarily directed to an evil, selfish, or injurious end. Finesse is especially subtle contrivance, delicate artifice, whether for good or evil. Compare FRAUD.

   Synonyms:
   art, artifice, blind, cheat, contrivance, craft, cunning, device, dodge, finesse, fraud, guile, imposture, invention, machination, maneuver, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, wile

   Antonyms:
   artlessness, candor, fairness, frankness, guilelessness, honesty, ingenuousness, innocence, openness, simplicity, sincerity, truth

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1. trick

   Synonyms:
   artifice, contrivance, machination, guile, stratagem, wile, fraud, cheat, juggle, antic, vagary, finesse, sleight, deception, imposition, delusion, legerdemain

   Antonyms:
   blunder, exposure, bungling, mishap, botch, fumbling, inexpertness, maladroitness, genuineness, openhandedness, artlessness

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1. trick, fast onenoun

   a cunning or deceitful action or device

   "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it"

   Synonyms:
   deception, joke, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, caper, put-on, fast one, thaumaturgy, antic, prank, magic, whoremaster, john, conjuration, whoremonger, conjuring trick

2. tricknoun

   a period of work or duty

   Synonyms:
   deception, joke, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, caper, put-on, fast one, thaumaturgy, antic, prank, magic, whoremaster, john, conjuration, whoremonger, conjuring trick

3. tricknoun

   an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent

   "that offer was a dirty trick"

   Synonyms:
   deception, joke, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, caper, put-on, fast one, thaumaturgy, antic, prank, magic, whoremaster, john, conjuration, whoremonger, conjuring trick

4. antic, joke, prank, trick, caper, put-onnoun

   a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

   Synonyms:
   pasquinade, put-on, thaumaturgy, gag, john, sendup, deception, legerdemain, magic trick, parody, job, jest, capriole, fraud, whoremaster, clowning, takeoff, caper, mockery, humbug, charade, frivolity, jape, jocularity, play, joke, buffoonery, romp, fraudulence, fast one, dupery, illusion, magic, lampoon, harlequinade, antic, hoax, travesty, whoremonger, laugh, gambol, frolic, burlesque, spoof, conjuring trick, prank, japery, conjuration

5. magic trick, conjuring trick, trick, magic, legerdemain, conjuration, thaumaturgy, illusion, deceptionnoun

   an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

   Synonyms:
   deception, fantasy, joke, illusion, incantation, legerdemain, phantasy, magic trick, dissembling, caper, semblance, head game, put-on, fast one, dissimulation, fancy, delusion, thaumaturgy, antic, conjury, prank, misrepresentation, magic, invocation, whoremaster, john, conjuration, deceit, whoremonger, conjuring trick, conjuring

6. whoremaster, whoremonger, john, tricknoun

   a prostitute's customer

   Synonyms:
   deception, legerdemain, prank, joke, illusion, caper, magic trick, lavatory, put-on, fast one, toilet, privy, thaumaturgy, can, john, antic, magic, bathroom, whoremaster, lav, conjuration, whoremonger, conjuring trick

7. trickverb

   (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner

   Synonyms:
   deception, joke, illusion, legerdemain, magic trick, caper, put-on, fast one, thaumaturgy, antic, prank, magic, whoremaster, john, conjuration, whoremonger, conjuring trick

8. flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick onverb

   deceive somebody

   "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"

   Synonyms:
   discombobulate, play a joke on, fuddle, flim-flam, pull someone's leg, confound, fob, confuse, hoax, play a trick on, pull a fast one on, befuddle, throw, fox, bedevil, play tricks

Matched Categories

1. • Customer
   • Dishonesty
   • Performance
   • Shift

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1. tricknoun

   Synonyms:
   artifice, stratagem, wile, cheat, dodge, doubling, gouge, fraud, chicane, blind, feint, mark, manœuvre, deceit, imposition, imposture, ruse, chouse, fetch, CLAP-TRAP, humbug, gammon, cunning contrivance, sharp practice

2. tricknoun

   Synonyms:
   sleight, juggle, antic, caper, gambol, freak, vagary

3. tricknoun

   Synonyms:
   habit, practice

4. trickverb

   Synonyms:
   cheat, defraud, deceive, cozen, dupe, delude, circumvent, gull, chouse, diddle, overreach, impose upon

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1. tricknoun

   Synonyms:
   ruse, artifice, stratagem, sleight, hoax, maneuver, wile, feint, chicane, antic, prank, caper, trait, peculiarity

2. trickverb

   Synonyms:
   deceive, cheat, defraud, cozen, impose upon, dress, decorate, set off, adorn

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1. List of paraphrases for "trick":

   ruse, trap, ploy, tower, thing, candy, tour, gimmick, cunning, joke, turn, stuff, stratagem, farce, round, rousse, trickery, ride, hoax

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1. Rob Stewart:

   That's the trick, to catch it early enough, isolate the people that are sick and they stay there. By the time you're looking at a whole team, you're probably quite far down the road. The trick is to catch it right away.

2. Charles Baudelaire:

   The finest trick of the devil is to persuade you that he does not exist.

3. Niccolo Machiavelli:

   Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

4. Veteran Andre Greipel:

   If Giacomo Nizzolo and Sacha Modolo were playing football Giacomo Nizzolo and Sacha Modolo'd say Giacomo Nizzolo and Sacha Modolo've scored a hat-trick with three consecutive stage wins. Giacomo Nizzolo and Sacha Modolo're very happy.

5. Olivia Nuzzi:

   People on the left are always asking me how I get people not on the left to talk to me and I always think it’s such an odd question, because the assumption is that there must be some magic trick involved. The trick is I don’t lie about my intentions or my thinking, which I consider basic respect I’d pay to anybody in any context, and in return people tend to offer me the basic respect of talking to me like a human being.