Trick

Definition: Trick

Trick

Noun

1. A cunning or deceitful action or device; "he played a trick on me"; "he pulled a fast one and got away with it".

2. A period of work or duty.

3. An attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick".

4. A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.

5. An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.

Verb

1. Deceive somebody; "We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "trick" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1200. (references)

Fine Arts

Industry

Multilingual Slang

Slang

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Trick

Absurdity

Vagary, tomfoolery,vagary, tomfoolery, poppycock, mummery, monkey trick, boutade, escapade.

Acquisition

Sweepstakes, trick, prize, pool; pot; wealth.

Amusement

Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule).

Cunning

Art, artifice; device, machination; plot; (plan); maneuver, stratagem, dodge, sidestep, artful dodge, wile; trick, trickery; (deception); ruse, ruse de guerre; finesse, side blow, thin end of the wedge, shift, go by, subterfuge, evasion; white lie; (untruth); juggle, tour de force; tricks of the trade, tricks upon travelers; espieglerie; net, trap.

Deception

Verb: deceive, take in; defraud, cheat, jockey, do, cozen, diddle, nab, chouse, play one false, bilk, cully, jilt, bite, pluck, swindle, victimize; abuse; mystify; blind one's eyes; blindfold, hoodwink; throw dust into the eyes; dupe, gull, hoax, fool, befool, bamboozle, flimflam, hornswoggle; trick.

Trick, cheat, wile, blind, feint, plant, bubble, fetch, catch, chicane, juggle, reach, hocus, bite; card sharping, stacked deck, loaded dice, quick shuffle, double dealing, dealing seconds, dealing from the bottom of the deck; artful dodge, swindle; tricks upon travelers; stratagem; (artifice); confidence trick, fake, hoax; theft; ballot-box stuffing barney, brace game, bunko game, drop game, gum game, panel game; shell game, thimblerig; skin game.

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Disappointment

Noun: disappointment; blighted hope, balk; blow; anticlimax; slip 'twixt cup and lip; nonfulfillment of one's hopes; sad disappointment, bitter disappointment; trick of fortune; afterclap; false expectation, vain expectation; miscalculation; fool's paradise; much cry and little wool.

Disappoint; frustrate, discomfit, crush, defeat (failure); crush one's hope, dash one's hope, balk one's hope, disappoint one's hope, blight one's hope, falsify one's hope, defeat one's hope, discourage; balk, jilt, bilk; play one false, play a trick; dash the cup from the lips, tantalize; dumfound, dumbfound, dumbfounder, dumfounder (astonish).

Impulse

Get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into.

Cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit; addiction, trick.

Ornament

Garnish, trim, dizen, bedizen, prink, prank; trick out, fig out; deck, bedeck, dight, bedight, array; begawd, dress, dress up; spangle, bespangle, powder; embroider, work; chase, emboss, fret, emblazon; illuminate; illustrate.

Ostentation

Coup de theatre; stage effect, stage trick; claptrap; mise en scene; tour de force; chic.

Plan

Contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift;contrivance, invention, expedient, receipt, nostrum, artifice, device; pipelaying; stratagem; (cunning); trick; (deception); alternative, loophole; shift; (substitute); last shift; (necessity).

Skill

Noun: skill, skillfulness, address; dexterity, dexterousness; adroitness, expertness; Adjective: proficiency, competence, technical competence, craft, callidity, facility, knack, trick, sleight; mastery, mastership, excellence, panurgy; ambidexterity, ambidextrousness; sleight of hand; (deception).

Crosswords: Trick

German (dodge, gimmick, hoax, knack, ploy, quirk, ruse, stunt, subterfuge, tip, trick, wrinkle), Manx (frequent, quick in succession, trick, trick cards), Swedish (booby-trap, fetch, finesse, game, gimmick, knack, ploy, racket, shtick, trick, wheeze).

That's a neat trick. (The Matrix Reloaded; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

I was trying to trick you. (Being John Malkovich; writing credit: Charlie Kaufman)

The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist (The Usual Suspects; writing credit: Christopher McQuarrie.)

Time continued to pass, the oldest trick in the world, and maybe the only one that really is magic (Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Let's hope they do the trick. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

Hey yo trick (Uh Huh; performing artist: B2K)

Trick a kiss in time (Church of the Poison Mind; performing artist: Culture Club)

Trick car alarms, then bend them curves (Saturday (Oooh! Oooh!); performing artist: Ludacris)

Any trick that diss gets a curfew (Hip-Hop Hooray; performing artist: Naughty By Nature)

He's been trick or treatin' (Cold Hearted; performing artist: Paula Abdul)

I can teach my cat any trick he wants to do! (references; author: unknown)

To be or not to be? I think its a trick question. (references; author: unknown)

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist. (references; author: unknown)

A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous. (references; author: unknown)

Trick Baby (1973)

Disappearing Trick (1972)

Trick or Retreat (1971)

Rope Trick (1967)

To Turn a Trick (1967)

I'm A Thug (performing artist: Trick Daddy)

Take It To Da House (performing artist: Trick Daddy)

On A Night Like This (performing artist: Trick Pony)

Pour Me (performing artist: Trick Pony)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Byrne's Treasury of Trick Shots in Pool and Billiards (reference)

• Willie Mosconi's Winning Pocket Billiards: For Beginners and Advanced Players With a Section on Trick Shots (reference)

• Penn and Teller's Cruel Tricks for Dear Friends / Book and Trick Packet (reference)

• Biscuit's New Trick (reference)

• Tricky Pix: Do It Yourself Trick Photography With Camera (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tony Hawk's Trick Tips, Vol. 2 - Essentials of Street (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Boo Cackle Trick Or Treat (reference)

• Fun Trick Noisemaker (reference)

• Trick Pony (reference)

• Trick Or Treat (1986 Film) [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• A Trick of the Tail [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Trick Boarder (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Then it was all a trick from the beginning. Credit: Library of Congress.

This ought to do the trick, Mr. President. Credit: Library of Congress.

It will be a good trick -- if!. Credit: Library of Congress.

It's a great trick -- if he can do it. Credit: Library of Congress.

Howard Thurston, magician, with man who looks like him and two young women, performing magic trick. Credit: Library of Congress.

Clown rider with his trick mule at rodeo. Quemado, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

Trick riding at rodeo. Quemado, New Mexico. Credit: Library of Congress.

"The odd trick". Credit: Library of Congress.

The marvellous Bard, phenomenal trick swinging wire artist. Credit: Library of Congress.

Zan Zig performing with rabbit and roses, including hat trick and levitation. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

It was adventuring too far, assuming too much, making light of what ought to be serious, a trick of what ought to be simple

This trick was discovered at the time of the earthly paradise

I know that trick.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The trick in extracting studies is found in the drop boxes at the bottom of the search page where "You may refine your search by." (references)

Worker Rights

China

Others seek help from criminal gangs, which either kidnap women or trick them by promising them jobs and an easier way of life and then transport them far from their home areas for delivery to buyers. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "trick": a nasty trick ♦ a neat trick ♦ a rascally trick ♦ a shabby trick ♦ april fool's trick ♦ business trick ♦ caddish trick ♦ card trick ♦ clownish trick ♦ con trick ♦ confidence trick ♦ conjuring trick ♦ devilish trick ♦ dirty trick ♦ do the trick ♦ filthy trick ♦ foul trick ♦ hat trick ♦ knavish trick ♦ lousy trick ♦ magic trick ♦ make a trick ♦ monkey trick ♦ play a dirty trick on smb. ♦ play a trick ♦ play a trick on ♦ play a trick on smb. ♦ play smb. a trick ♦ practical trick ♦ rotten trick ♦ score a hat trick ♦ serve a trick ♦ shabby trick ♦ stage trick ♦ take the trick ♦ trick bar ♦ trick film ♦ trick flying ♦ trick or treat ♦ trick out ♦ trick out of ♦ trick smb. out of smth. ♦ trick the voter ♦ trick up ♦ turn a trick. Additional references.

Beginning with "trick": trick-cyclist, trick-cyclists, trick-diving, trick-ending, trick-feeder, trick-or-treat, trick-or-treats, trick-rider.

Ending with "trick": con-trick, hat-trick.

Afrikaans

beetneem (captivate, capture, catch, clutch, fool, grapple, hoax, mystify, take, take in), beethê (fool, have, have got hold of, hoax, mystify), bedot (fool, hoax, mystify). (various references)

Albanian

yçkël (catch, cop out), shaka (badinage, crack, facetiae, gag, hoax, jape, jest, jocosity, jocularity, joke, lark, persiflage, play, pleasantry, prank, quiz, spoof, waggery), rreng (fraud, frolic, hoax, hokey-pokey, kicker, practical joke, prank, rig), mashtrim (bilk, blind, bluff, bunco, bunko, caper, cheat, chicanery, chouse, circumvention, con, cozenage, crammer, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defalcation, delusion, dodge, double dealing, duplicity, fake, false pretences, falsity, flimflam, fob, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gag, gammon, gimmick, guile, gyp, humbug, imposition, imposture, jiggery pokery, juggler, jugglery, juggling, leasing, lie, manipulation, overreach, quackery, racket, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, rig, roguery, sham, swindle, take in), marifet (art, artifice, caper, dodge, fetch, gimmick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, ploy, sleight of hand, stunt), lojë (fun, game, joke, kiss-in-the-ring, performance, play, toy), iluzion (delusion, hallucination, illusion, phantom, vapor, vapour, will-o'-the-wisp), hile (chicane, deception, fraud, overreach, ruse, subterfuge, wangle), dredhi (art, artifice, cop out, dodge, duplicity, finesse, gimmick, guile, machination, overreach, pass, ploy, subterfuge, trickery, wangle, wile, wiliness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏زين (apparel, bedeck, deck, dress, enhance, figure, gem, grace, hang, invest, ornament, paint, pattern, pipe, plate, prettify, prink, smarten, trim, varnish), ‏دور المرء باللعب, ‏رقيق (aerial, affectionate, airy, angelic, bland, bleeding heart, dainty, delicate, feminine, filmy, fine, flimsy, fluffy, fragile, frothy, gauzy, gentle, gingerly, gossamery, gracious, hearty, kind hearted, kindly, lovely, mellow, mincing, nice, orchidaceous, pastel, photogenic, piano, quiet, refined, romance, sharp, sloppy, smooth, soft-hearted, suave, subtle, sugary, superfine, tender, tenuous, thin, thinning, tilery, warm, watery), ‏إحتال (cheat, do, finesse, gull, gyp, pluck, victimize, wangle, work), ‏خدع (bamboozle, beguile, betray, bilk, bitch, bite, blind, bluff, brown, bubble, camouflage, catch, cheat, chisel, con, crook, deceive, deception, decoy, defraud, delude, diddle, do, dupe, entrap, fall for, feint, fiddle, fob, fool, fox, get round, give the lie to, gull, gyp, hoax, hocus pocus, humbug, illusory, impose, intrigue, jape, job, leg pull, lure, mislead, mock, mystify, nick, overreach, pitch, play a trick, pose, prank, pull a fast one, pull his leg, ream, rook, sell, settle his hash, skin, skunk, slang, stick, string along, swank, swindle, take for a ride, take in, victimize, wile), ‏خدعة (artifice, deception, dodge, fetch, fraud, gag, hoax, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, wile), ‏طفل وسيم, ‏عادة خاصة, ‏براعة (address, artfulness, artifice, cleverness, craft, craftiness, cunning, dexterity, facility, finesse, hand, ingeniousness, ingenuity, knack, know how, mastery, proficiency, science, skill, skillfulness, sleight of hand, tact, workmanship), ‏زخرف (adorn, bedeck, deck, decorate, do, embellish, embellishment, emboss, embroider, enrich, flourish, garnish, grace, illuminate, illustrate, lard, ornament, ornamentation, string, trace, trick out, trick up, trim), مراوَغَة (deceit, slyness), ‏حيلة (artifice, deceit, device, dodge, expedient, fetch, finesse, fraud, gag, imposition, makeshift, monkey business, ploy, prank, ruse, sleight, stalking horse, stratagem, subterfuge, twist, wile), ‏وقع في الشرك (decoy, entangle, fall for, track down, trap), ‏ماكر (artful, crafty, cunning, deceitful, deep, designing, disingenuous, feline, foxlike, foxy, furtive, guileful, malicious, pawky, politic, scheming, sharper, slick, slim, sly, smart, subtle, vulpine, wily), ‏مجموع أوراق اللعب, ‏مزحة (banter, caper, frolic, game, jest, jocularity, joke, prank, rag, raillery, romp, waggery), ‏مكر (archness, artfulness, artifice, brown, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, double dealing, feint, fish, foxiness, furtiveness, guile, ploy, roguery, ruse, sham, slyness, wiliness), ‏مكيدة (artifice, intrigue, machination, plot, scheme), ‏عمل بارع. (various references)

Bulgarian 

магария, дреболия (bagatelle, detail, doit, fiddlestick, fillip, knack, non essential, nothing, nothingness, pin head, playgame, tittle, toy, trifle, twopence), дяволия (devilry, diablerie), изигравам (bamboozle, cheat, con, diddle, do smb., fob, hoodwink, let in, milk, outwit, play out, prey, sell, skin, skunk, suck in, trepan, trim), измамвам (abuse, befool, beguile, catch, chisel, chouse, clip, cross, dash, defraud, diddle, fix, flam, fob, fool, gaff, go back on, green, gull, hijack, kid, mislead, mock, nobble, overreach, play false, pluck, prey, pull a fast one, put across, put on, screw, sell, shaft, short-change, slip over, spoof, swindle, take for a ride, take in, trim), подлъгвам (cheat, dupe, entice, fool, humbug), подхлъзвам (cheat, diddle, do smb., dupe, fool, take smb. for a ride), проява на ловкост, проява на умение (tour de force), джунджурийка, маниерност (manner, mannerism, preciosity), странна привичка, особеност (distinction, feature, lineament, particularity, pattern, peculiarity, point, speciality), взятка, шега (chaff, fun, game, hoax, jape, jest, jig, joke, lark, pleasantry, prank, quiz, raillery, rib, sport, tease, waggery), трик (double, flam, jig, skin game, sleight, snare, trepan), труфя се (doll up), фокус (focus, juggle), цака (hang, knack), хитрост (archness, art, artfulness, artifice, deceitfulness, device, dodge, finesse, game, guile, overreach, policy, ruse, shrewdness, slyness, stratagem), смяна при кормилото, леснина. (various references)

Chinese 

花樣 (pattern; type), 騙�" (deceit), 秘訣 , 把戏, 手法 (skill, technique), 戲 (drama, play, show). (various references)

Czech

trik (dodge, dor, foist, gag, gimmick, hocus pocus, racket, subterfuge, wangle). (various references)

Danish

kneb (subterfuge, trickery). (various references)

Dutch

aanwensel (habit). (various references)

Esperanto

truko, ruzo (ruse), ruzaĵo (ruse, stratagem), mistifiki (fool, hoax, mystify), artifiko (subterfuge, trickery), alkutimaĵo (habit). (various references)

Faeroese

svikaráð (assault, subterfuge, trickery), snild (subterfuge, trickery), lokabrøgd (subterfuge, trickery). (various references)

Farsi 

فوت وفن , نیرنگ (Art, Artifice, Craft, Deception, Trap, Trickery, Witchcraft), لم (Loll), حیله زدن , حیله (Deceit, Deception, Evasion, Foul, Gaff, Gimmick, Guile, Humbug, Legerdemain, Monkeyshine, Ruse, Sleight, Train, Trepanation, Wile), حقه بازی کردن (Spoof), حقه (Bob, Hob, Intake, Knack, Monkeyshine, Shift), خدعه (Deceit, Lurch, Ruse, Wile), رمز (Cipher, Code, Cranny, Crypt, Enigma, Mystery, Secret, Symbol, Token), شوخی کردن (Fun, Indulge, Jest, Joke, Josh, Lark), شعبده بازی (Jugglery). (various references)

Finnish

tikki (stitch), temppu (dodge), puijata (cheat, diddle), petkuttaa (cheat, fool, pull a person's leg, swindle, take in), niksi (gimmick), metku (dodge), kuje (lark, prank), konsti, kolttonen (prank), kepponen (practical joke), juoni (design, intrigue, plot). (various references)

French

truc, artifice (trickery). (various references)

Frisian

oanwenst (habit). (various references)

German

List (artfulness, artifice, craftiness, cunning, guile, ploy, ruse, shift, stealth, stratagem, subterfuge, wile, wiles), Trick (dodge, gimmick, hoax, knack, ploy, quirk, ruse, stunt, subterfuge, tip, wrinkle), Streich (blow, caper, coup, escapade, frolic, hoax, joke, prank, slash, stroke, sweep), Kunstgriff (art, artifice), Kniff (crease, fold, knack, nip, pinch, ruse, shift, wrinkle), Schlich (crept, ruse, slinked, tiptoed, weaseled, wile), Kunststück (feat, stunt), Kunst (art, artistry, craft, skill, skillfulness). (various references)

Greek 

ξεγελώ (bamboozle, bite, deceive, delude, diddle, euchre, fake out, have on, hocus, hoodwink, inveigle, juggle, outsmart, outwit, spoof), τρικ (tricks). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"וליך שולל (hoodwnk, lead astray, misguide, mislead), ל�"טוט (jugglery), ל� כלל (deceit, scheme against), תעלול (antic, caper, caprice, hoax, machination, mischief, practical joke, prank, quip, rag, whim), תחבול�" (artifice, expedient, fetch, finesse, hatch, machination, mean, ruse, scheme, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, thingumajig thingumabob, wile), תכסיס (manner of conduct, ploy, shift, stratagem, strategy, tactics), פעלול (gimmick, prank, special effect, stunt), טכסיס (design, device, scheme, stratagem), טריק, � כלול. (various references)

Hungarian

trükk (fetch, knack, ploy, ruse, shenanigan, trickery, tweak), fogás (catch, catching, clasp, clench, course, decrement, dish, grasp, grip, handle, hold, knack, prehension, stopper, touch, tweak), csel (art, artifice, catch, cod, cunning, dodge, fake, feint, fetch, gimmick, ruse, stratagem, tweak). (various references)

Indonesian

pendayaan (deceit, expedient, way out), mendaya (deceive), memperdaya (cozen, delude, see: mendaya), makar (assault, tactics), daya (capacity, energy, potency, power, ruse), budi (character, mind, sensibleness). (various references)

Irish

cleas. (various references)

Italian

vizio (bad habit, defect, error, fault, faults, flaw, flaws, habit, mistake, problem, slip, slipup, vice, vise, wickedness), trucco (dodge, gimmick, make up, makeup, wrinkle), abitudine (addiction, consuetude, custom, habit, habitude, inurement, practice, wont). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

謀略 (plot, scheme, stratagem, strategy). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

つみな�"と (cruel thing, sinful act), じゅっけい (strategem), けいりゃく (administration, plan, plot, rule, stratagem), �'いとう (feat, risky attempt, stunt), わる� くみ (conspiracy, intrigue, sinister design, wiles), あっけい (evil scheme, plot), あくけい (evil scheme, plot), あくぎ (mischief, practical joke, prank, tease), いたずら (mischief, practical joke, prank, tease), てぐち (criminal technique, modus operandi), からくり (device, dodge, mechanism), たくらみ (artifice, design, intrigue, plan), さいく (craftsmanship, tactics, work), さくりゃく (scheme, stratagem, tactic), ぼうりゃく (plot, scheme, stratagem, strategy), き�"う (armor, armour, breath control, breathing exercise, calling at aport, chi kung, cleverness, climate, contribution, contrivance, drafting, eccentricities, homeward voyage or flight, horseback riding, mechanism, organization, qigong, remarkable effect, returning to port, returning to school, season, setting to work, spirit cultivation, stoma, stopping at a port, traveller's journal, you), しかけ (challenge, commencement, device, gadget, half finished, mechanism, scale, set up), きぼう (16th night of the month, aspiration, hope, hoping for, looking forward to, ruse, wish), トリック , たね (cause, copy, inside story, issue, kind, material, matter, offspring, paternal blood, pip, quality, secret, seed, source, subject, theme, tone, variety), か�"けい (connection, evil design, relation, sharp practice). (various references)

Korean 

간계. (various references)

Manx

spring (joke), sponnag (error), shayll (bout of work, innings, piece of work, rotating, share, spell, stint, turn), molley (baffle, bafflement, beguile, bluff, cajole, captivate, cheering, deceit, deceive, deception, disappoint, disappointment, foil, fool, impose, imposition), geayshteig, garrey (bout of work, gallop, impetus, lap, rubber, spell, stint, turn), crout (calculation, craftiness, stratagem), clink (curvature, jingle, twist, twist running), click, cleays (invention). (various references)

Papiamen

triki (subterfuge, trickery). (various references)

Pig Latin

icktray.(various references)

Portuguese

truque (artifice, bogie, fake, gag, gammon, gouge, juggle, knack, legerdemain), estratagema (artifice, coup, craftiness, device, elusion, feint, fetch, finesse, fraud, maneuver, manoeuvre, ruse, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wile), artimanha (cunning, guile, jape, snare, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, tweak, wile), artifício (artifice, claptrap, come-off, device, fetch, flam, fraud, gimmick, inventiveness, maneuver, manoeuvre, practice, put-off, scheme, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery). (various references)

Romanian

trage pe sfoarã (bilk, chisel, con, diddle, do, do brown, do the dirty, double cross, fob, fool, Fox, gammon, impose, kid, let in, nobble, take in, wangle), tertip (artifice, quip, wrinkle), truc (catch, device, dodge, fake, fetch, jugglery, knack, pass, stratagem, wheeze), levatã, învârtiturã (bent, spire, turn, wind), şiretlic (catch, device, fake, ruse, sharp practice, shift, shuffle, stratagem, trickery, wile), comedie (comedy, device, drollery, farce, sham, sock), farsã (farce, hoax, humbug, interlude, joke, leg pull, low comedy, Masquerade), firicel de lichid, înşela (abuse, bamboozle, beguile, betray, bluff, cheat, chouse, circumvent, cog, con, cozen, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, diddle, disappoint, do, do brown, do something crooked, double cross, dupe, fiddle, frustrate, gag, get round, gull, hocus, hoodwink, humbug, impose, jockey, juggle, mock, mystify, nobble, out-jockey, pigeon, queer, ramp, rook, sharp, shuffle, swindle, victimize), ispravã (adventure, deed, exploit, feat, stunt, success), marafet (artifice, fuss, trappings, trifles, whims), pãcãli (cheat, deceive, diddle, do, dupe, fool, gammon, get, gull, hoax, hocus, hornswoggle, kid, let in, lime, nobble, outflank, outsmart, outwit, sell, Spruce, stuff, trump, twist), scamatorie (sleight of hand), stratagemã (stratagem, wheeze), glumã (chaff, farce, frolic, fun, gag, game, jape, jest, joke, lark, play, prank, sport, wheeze, wisecrack, wit, witticism). (various references)

Russian 

хитрость (archness, artfulness, catch, circumvention, craft, craftiness, double, fetch, finesse, guile, management, slyness, stealth, stratagem, subtlety, trickery, trickiness, wile, wiliness). (various references)

Scottish

cleas (a play, feat, playful trick), car (before an adj. : car coltach ri, fraud : an caraibh a, somewhat like, turn, twist). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

trik (gimmick, ruse), zavaravati (deceive, lead on), smicalica (artifice, dodge, gimmick, manipulation, shift, wile), slab (dickey, dicky, feckless, feeble, flabby, frail, infirm, languid, languorous, low, meager, meagre, nerveless, poor, powerless, punk, remote, short, sickly, slim, tenuous, thin, undernourished, unlikely, washy, weak), prevariti (bamboozle, beguile, bilk, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, circumvent, con, deceive, diddle, double cross, flimflam, fool, get round, gyp, hoodwink, mulct, rook, rope, rope in, screw, set up, skunk, stick, string along, take in, victimize), prevara (bilk, blind, bubble, cheat, chicanery, confidence trick, deceit, deception, dodge, double cross, dupery, eyewash, fake, flimflam, fraud, gammon, guile, gyp, plant, racket, ruse, setup, trumpery), obmanuti (bluff, cheat, deceive, delude, mislead), koji pravi smicalice, izigravati (put on, simulate), iluzija (fancy, illusion, mare's nest, mirage), šala (dalliance, dido, farce, fun, have on, jest, joke, lark, pleasantry, rag, rib, sally). (various references)

Spanish

truco (dodge, doodad, doodah, doohickey, gag, gimmick, Hickey, hoax, knack, wangle, wheeze, wrinkle), resabio (aftertaste, habit), engañar (bamboozle, be deceptive, befool, beguile, belie, betray, bilk, bite, bluff, buffalo, cheat, cheat on, circumvent, con, cozen, deceive, delude, do a room, double cross, dupe, fob, fool, hoax, hocus, hoodwink, kill, mislead, mystify, outsmart, pull a fast one, put across, put off, put over, put upon, spoof, stay, swindle, take in, while away), mala costumbre (bad habit, habit). (various references)

Swedish

tilltag (prank, venture), spratt (Dido, hoax, lark, prank, spoof), lura (bamboozle, beat, befool, beguile, cheat, chicane, chisel, chouse, clip, cod, con, cozen, deceive, decoy, delude, diddle, do, do down, dope, double cross, double-cross, dupe, entrap, euchre, flay, fool, Fox, gaff, gudgeon, gull, have, hoax, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoodwink, hook, humbug, impose, inveigle, jockey, kid, lure, out-jockey, overreach, rip off, rook, sell, short-change, swindle), konstgrepp (artifice, subterfuge, trickery), konst (art, artifice, arts, craft, skill), knep (art, artifice, catch, chicanery, contrivance, device, dodge, fetch, finesse, game, gimmick, hoax, jiggery pokery, knack, ruse, sell, shift, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wiles, wrinkle), fuffens (dodge, fiddle, jugglery). (various references)

Turkish

hile (adulteration, artifice, arts, canard, catch, cheat, cheating, chicane, cobweb, collusion, craft, cross, deceit, deception, decoy, device, do, dodge, doubling, dupery, duplicity, fake, false pretences, false pretenses, finesse, flam, flimflam, fraud, gadget, gaff, gambit, gammon, gimmick, gouge, hanky panky, have, have on, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, imposture, jiggery pokery, maneuver, manipulation, manoeuvre, plant, ploy, practice, pretense, rig, rigging, rip off, ruse, sell, sham, sleight of hand, slyness, subterfuge, tortuosity, trickery, wheeling and dealing, wile), üçkâğıt (cheat, fiddle, frame up, gadget, have, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, humbug, jiggery pokery, rouser, ruse, skin game, swindle, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wile), üçkâğıtçılık (confidence game, confidence trick, highway robbery, indirection, knavery, shell game, skulduggery, swindling, trickery, wiliness), aldatmaca (catch, feint, legerdemain, shiftiness, sleight, sleight of hand), aldatmak (bamboozle, be unfaithful, bilk, cheat, cuckold, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, fake, feint, finagle, Fox, gammon, gull, gyp, have, hocus, hoodwink, hornswoggle, humbug, palter, play smb. false, put it over on, sell, sell smb. a packet, sell smb. a pup, spoof, string, stuff smb., take for a ride, take in, two time, victimize), azizlik (sainthood, saintliness), cinsel ilişki (act, carnal knowledge, commerce, intimacy, it, screw, sex, sexual act, sexual intercourse, shot, snatch), dümen (cabal, cheat, dope, helm, rig, rudder, steering wheel, wheel), dümen nöbeti, dalavere (cheating, chicane, deception, do, fiddle, gammon, gerrymander, hankeypankey, hanky panky, intrigue, jobbing, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, rigging, rouser, sell, swindle), el çabukluğu (adroitness, dexterity, hat trick, hocus pocus, hokey-pokey, hoky-poky, legerdemain, pass, prestidigitation, sleight, sleight of hand), fahişenin müşterisi, çalım (air, airs, feint, ostentation, pass, side, strut, strutting, swagger, swank), güzel kadın (Belle), püf noktası (crux, gadget, knack, pivot, the nub, tip), hileli (dishonest, false, fraudulent, sharp, tortuous, trickish, tricksy, tricky, twisty, unfair), işin sırrı (knack), kötü şaka, kandırmak (argue, bait, bamboozle, befool, beguile, cheat, con, cozen, deceive, delude, diddle, dish, dissuade, dupe, entice, fast-talk, finagle, flimflam, fool, gammon, get round, gyp, hornswoggle, induce, intrigue, inveigle, jockey, jolly, kid, lead on, lie, persuade, play with, put across, put over, rope in, sell smb. a pup, serve a trick, spoof, stall off, stick, string, string along, stuff smb., take in, wheedle), kurnazlık (archness, art, artfulness, artifice, arts, astuteness, craftiness, cunning, dodge, finesse, foxiness, guile, shenanigan, shiftiness, slyness, smartness, stratagem, strategy, subtility, subtlety, wheeler-dealing, wheeling and dealing, wiliness, wrinkle), marifet (artifice, attainments, cunning, gimmick, ingeniousness, ingenuity, skill, stunt, talent, wrinkle), muziplik (caper, Dido, fooling, frolic, hoax, joke, lark, prank, rag, teasing), numara (act, affectation, no, number, pretence, pretense, size, stunt), oyun (act, acting, canard, dance, device, frolic, game, hoax, performance, play, presentment, representation, spectacle, sport, stage play, wheeze), oyun etmek (deceive, hoax, hocus, palter, play a trick, play a trick on smb., play smb. a trick, pull a fast one), oyuna getirmek (hoodwink, play smb. a trick, pull a fast one, surprise, trap), oyunda yerde toplanan kâğıtlar, faka bastırmak (deceive, hornswoggle, two time). (various references)

Turkmen 

pirim (artifice, strategem). (various references)

Ukrainian

хитрість (archness, artfulness, artifice, astuteness, catch, craft, craftiness, cunning, finesse, foxery, overreach, pawk, ploy, sharpness, sleight, stealth, trickery, wiliness), трюковий, трюк (deceit, gimmick, lurk, stunt), омана, обманювати (baffle, bam, beguile, begunk, betray, bluff, bubble, buffalo, cheat, chouse, cozen, deceive, defraud, delude, do down, double cross, gouge, impose, mountebank, swindle, victimize), опоряджати (decorate, equip), жарт (cantrip, jape, jest, jocosity, joke, panic, play, pleasantry, skit, wheeze, witticism), підводити (betray, cast up, fail). (various references)

Vietnamese 

trò tinh nghịch ngón, trò ranh ma, trò khéo thói, trò gian trá, trò choi xỏ, trò bịp bợm trò chơi khăm, thủ đoạn đánh lừa, phép (law, talismanic), mưu mẹo (artifice, ruse, stratagem, trepan, tricky, wile), mánh lới nh� nghề trò, mánh khoé (astute, craft, fetch, finesse, wangle), láu (arch, archly, cagey, cagy, deep), đòn (beater, hit), đủ ngón. (various references)

Welsh

tric, ystranc, castio (calculate, cast, cheat). (various references)

argumentis, argumentorum, argumentum, ars, artificio, astutia, astutiam, astutias, captio, captionem, dole, doli, dolis, dolo, dolorum, dolos, dolum, dolus, emuncta, emunctoria, emunctoriis, emungitur, fallacia, fallaciam, frustro, frustro, frustror, furta, furti, furtis, furto, furtum, furtumque, lod, lud, ludam, ludant, luddeo, luddeum, lude, ludebant, ludebat, ludens, ludent, ludentem, ludentes, ludentibus, ludentium, luderet, lusistis, lusit, machina, machinationes, tricari, vaframentum. (various references)

tour, tourn. (various references)

gaud. (various references)

trique. (various references)

stratag�me. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "trick": tricked, tricker, trickeries, trickers, trickery, trickie, trickier, trickiest, trickily, trickiness, trickinesses, tricking, trickish, trickishly, trickishness, trickishnesses, trickle, trickled, trickledown, trickles, tricklier, trickliest, trickling, trickly, tricks, tricksier, tricksiest, tricksiness, tricksinesses, trickster, tricksters, tricksy, tricky. (additional references)

Words ending with "trick": outtrick, overtrick, strick, undertrick. (additional references)

Words containing "trick": awestricken, misstricken, outtricked, outtricking, outtricks, overtricks, restricken, stricken, strickle, strickled, strickles, strickling, stricks, thunderstricken, undertricks. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Trick" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dirck, Druick, etnicko, frick, shrick, Terrick, thrik, Tirc, tirci, tirric, tirrick, toric, traik, tranck, trask, trck, trekk, triac, tric, trich, trici, trico, tricy, triek, trik, Trinci, Trinko, trisk, Tritc, trix, Trixi, trock, ttrack, twick, tyack, tzick. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: rick, tick.

-2 letters: ick, irk, kir, kit, tic.

-3 letters: it, ti.

+1 letter: strick, ticker, tricks, tricky.

+2 letters: cricket, karstic, pricket, rickets, rickety, sticker, stricks, tackier, thicker, tickers, tickler, tricked, tricker, trickie, trickle, trickly, tricksy, tripack.

+3 letters: antirock, autarkic, brickbat, chirkest, corkiest, crickets, deticker, outtrick, picketer, prickets, rockiest, stickers, stickier, stickler, stockier, stricken, strickle, ticklers, tracking, trickers, trickery, trickier, trickily, tricking, trickish, trickled, trickles, tripacks, trocking, trucking, whitrack.