All trick synonyms
trick
T t verb trick
- finagle β to trick, swindle, or cheat (a person) (often followed by out of): He finagled the backers out of a fortune.
- conjure β If you conjure something out of nothing, you make it appear as if by magic.
- jive β swing music or early jazz.
- bamboozle β To bamboozle someone means to confuse them greatly and often trick them.
- jollies β in good spirits; lively; merry: In a moment he was as jolly as ever.
- hexing β Present participle of hex.
- leave behind β fail to bring
- cross up β to confuse or disorder
- chicane β a bridge or whist hand without trumps
- hosed β a flexible tube for conveying a liquid, as water, to a desired point: a garden hose; a fire hose.
- circumlocute β to speak in a circuitous way
- hexed β to bewitch; practice witchcraft on: He was accused of hexing his neighbors' cows because they suddenly stopped giving milk.
- misdirect β to direct or address wrongly or incorrectly: to misdirect a person; to misdirect a letter.
- disinformed β Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- buffaloing β any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- misguide β to guide wrongly; misdirect.
- mousetrap β a trap for mice, especially one consisting of a rectangular wooden base on which a metal spring is mounted.
- gammon β deceitful nonsense; bosh.
noun trick
- queerness β strange or odd from a conventional viewpoint; unusually different; singular: a queer notion of justice.
- covin β a conspiracy between two or more persons to act to the detriment or injury of another
- modus β (legal, obsolete) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
- obliqueness β The characteristic of being oblique.
- collusion β Collusion is secret or illegal co-operation, especially between countries or organizations.
- gambol β to skip about, as in dancing or playing; frolic.
- contrivance β If you describe something as a contrivance, you disapprove of it because it is unnecessary and artificial.
- haha β sunk fence.
- gimmick β an ingenious or novel device, scheme, or stratagem, especially one designed to attract attention or increase appeal.
- big stick β force or the threat of using force
- artifice β Artifice is the clever use of tricks and devices.
- monkeyshine β Usually, monkeyshines. a frivolous or mischievous prank; monkey business.
- evasion β The action of evading something.
- coverup β an attempt to keep blunders, crimes, etc. from being disclosed
- wittiness β possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer.
- mannerism β a habitual or characteristic manner, mode, or way of doing something; distinctive quality or style, as in behavior or speech: He has an annoying mannerism of tapping his fingers while he talks. They copied his literary mannerisms but always lacked his ebullience.
- bait and switch β Bait and switch is used to refer to a sales technique in which goods are advertised at low prices in order to attract customers, although only a small number of the low-priced goods are available.
- whistlestop β (US, dated) A minor railway station at which a train would stop if requested.
- blow off β If you blow something off, you ignore it or choose not to deal with it.
- cunningness β skill employed in a shrewd or sly manner, as in deceiving; craftiness; guile.
- conation β the element in psychological processes that tends towards activity or change and appears as desire, volition, and striving
- countermine β a tunnel dug to defeat similar activities by an enemy
- carrot β Carrots are long, thin, orange-coloured vegetables. They grow under the ground, and have green shoots above the ground.
- masquerade β a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
- gobbledegook β language characterized by circumlocution and jargon, usually hard to understand: the gobbledegook of government reports.
- fool's errand β a completely absurd, pointless, or useless errand.
- gambit β Chess. an opening in which a player seeks to obtain some advantage by sacrificing a pawn or piece.
- hang β to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
- cleanup β A cleanup is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere.
- wit β the keen perception and cleverly apt expression of those connections between ideas that awaken amusement and pleasure. Synonyms: drollery, facetiousness, waggishness, repartee.
- curveball β a ball pitched in a curving path so as to make it more difficult to hit