trick

CEFRA2

/ˈtɹɪk/

noun · verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    noun

    An action meant to deceive or surprise someone.

  2. 02

    verb

    To deceive someone by using a clever plan.

Examples

  • Mike played a bad trick on his brother.

  • The pianist played a trick on the audience.

At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Deep Dive

noun

Extra meanings

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

  2. An entertaining difficult physical action.

  3. Something designed to fool, dupe, outsmart, mislead or swindle.

More examples

In context

  • They had to think of a trick to get past the guards.

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

  • He played a trick on his sister as April Fool's Day.

Synonyms

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Origin

noun

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”). The term has been co...