Word Finder - trick

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Something designed to fool or swindle.

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It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced.

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A single element of a magician's (or any variety entertainer's) act; a magic trick.

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And for my next trick, I will pull a wombat out of a duffel bag.

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An entertaining difficult physical action.

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

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An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.

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tricks of the trade;  what's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?

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Mischievous or annoying behavior; a prank.

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the tricks of boys

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A particular habit or manner; a peculiarity; a trait.

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a trick of drumming with the fingers; a trick of frowning

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A knot, braid, or plait of hair.

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A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.

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I was able to take the second trick with the queen of hearts.

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A sex act, chiefly one performed for payment; an act of prostitution.

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A customer to a prostitute.

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

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

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A sailor's spell of work at the helm, usually two hours long.

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A toy; a trifle; a plaything.

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To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.

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

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To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).

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To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.

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Involving trickery or deception.

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trick photography

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Able to perform tricks.

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A trick pony

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Defective or unreliable.

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a trick knee

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Stylish or cool.

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Wow, your new sportscar is so trick.

It was some sort of trick to get her to slip up.

When a woman wants to know, she looks for some clever way to trick the man into disclosing the facts.

It was quite another to trick her into betraying her father.

She wasn't going to fall for whatever trick they played.

Children seldom have any difficulty in understanding her; which suggests that her deliberate measured speech is like theirs, before they come to the adult trick of running all the words of a phrase into one movement of the breath.

But if you trick me, if the fourth day comes and Katie isn't alive, I'll wipe out everything and hunt you down.

This was a trick which Henry VII.

The trick had been carried out admirably.

After the battle of Siffin (657) arbitration was resorted to for the settlement of the rival claims. By a trick `Ali was deposed (658), and the Omayyad dynasty was established with its capital at Damascus.

If that is the case, it is impossible to say whether the trick was in the utterance of the revelation or in the fit itself.

She hadn't been able to get through to anyone else and wondered if there was some magic trick he'd done to reach her.

It was a trick.

So, to use this trick you need to use Joe.

Pullers appear to renounce pulling, refusers take to jumping and clumsy horses become nearly as handy as a trick horse in a circus.

But the Zeus whose grave was shown in Crete, or the Zeus who played Demeter an obscene trick by the aid of a ram, or the Zeus who, in the shape of a swan, became the father of Castor and Pollux, or the Zeus who was merely a rough stone, or the Zeus who deceived Hera by means of a feigned marriage with an inanimate object, or the Zeus who was afraid of Attes, is a being whose myth is felt to be unnatural and in great need of explanation.

My offerings to the Gods last night - slightly congealed goat filets in a crisp golden breadcrumb jacket - obviously did the trick.

A tray containing lard or solid fat can also do the trick.

Betsy loved reveled in it and it fulfilled my needs; the wine did the trick and, I was hungry and the food tasted good.

The altruism trick A new theory of memetic altruism is proposed.

How do you know that isn't doing the trick?

If a recipe calls for sifted flour or sugar, sift directly into the measuring cup or spoon first, then use the knife trick.

In wrath at this trick, according to Hesiod, or in other versions for the purpose of exterminating the remnants of people who escaped the deluge of Deucalion, Zeus never bestowed, or later withdrew, the gift of fire.

He memorably scored a hat trick in an emphatic victory over Saracens at the Rec.

Condemned Wimbledon were put to the sword at Upton Park with Matthew Etherington getting a hat trick in a 5 - 0 win.

Malmesbury Victoria overpowered Easington Sports winning 6-1 with Alan Webb netting a hat trick.

In the 48th minute Adam rounded off an excellent second half hat trick 10-0.

Phillip Hodson says good mental housekeeping is the trick.

The trick of course is to find an alternative a priori hypothesis.

Another useful trick is to put inverted commas round the search term.

It seems laudable to suggest it should return - the trick is to decide where and how much?

Essentially biological liposuction works because it is possible to trick the immune defenses into thinking that the fat cells are appropriate targets for elimination.

By the end of my four hour trick the weather was really lousy.

Reckon the OL ' meds have done the trick, tho.

Various cough mixtures on the market do the trick for different people.

The trick is that those 9 center nonets, put together, also constitute a valid Sudoku.. .

It's a sworn oath for magicians not to tell the audience how a trick is done.

The illusion or Maya of separateness from divine oneness is a trick of the mind.

This is often the same with many optical illusions or " trick " pictures.

However, there were some unethical sellers who would try to trick buyers by concealing large cats in the bags instead of suckling pigs.

Mac Macdonald was a one armed magic pitchman and the trick was first credited to him around 40 years ago by Vernon and Ganson.

Then I met a pixie and she tried to trick me.

It strikes us that the signallers missed a trick, and could have used the same playbook as they used up until last Monday.

Not a one trick pony, Andrew has a wider topic range for his jokes other than just sex.

Write a story based on the idea of a magical potion used to trick someone.

Ryan has developed a truly righteous card trick, with a slap in the face ending!

Consider taking a ruff at trick two when playing in a long trump suit before drawing trumps.

Ice cream Sara trick to hide angeles has the officially announcing his.

Some of us tried to catch it, thinking some scoundrel was playing a wicked trick upon us.

She's got power-crazed authoritarian parents who never learned the trick of critical self-analysis.

Nor can any artificial religion like modern shamanism do the trick.