trick

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Etymology [edit]

Either from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier; French: tricher), from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”); Or from Dutch trek (“a pull, draw, trick”), from trekken (“to draw”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjanan, *trikanan (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). Cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka. Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

Adjective [edit]

trick (comparative tricker, superlative trickest)

  1. (slang) Stylish or cool.
    Wow, your new sportscar is so trick.

Noun [edit]

trick (plural tricks)

  1. Something designed to fool or swindle.
    It was just a trick to say that the house was underpriced.
  2. 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.
  3. An effective, clever or quick way of doing something.
    Tricks of the trade. What's the trick of getting this chair to fold up?
  4. (card games) 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.
  5. (slang) An act of prostitution. Generally used with turn.
    At the worst point, she was turning ten tricks a day.
  6. (slang) A customer to a prostitute.
    As the businessman rounded the corner, she thought, "Here comes another trick."
  7. An entertaining or difficult physical action.
    That's a nice skateboard, but can you do any tricks on it?
  8. A daily period of work, especially in shift-based jobs.
    • 1885, Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen, The Conductor and Brakeman, page 496:
      On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.
    • 1899, New York (State), Bureau of Statistics, Deptartment of Labor, Annual Report:
      Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick $60, second trick $60, third trick $50.
    • 1949, Labor arbitration reports, page 738:
      The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.

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Translations [edit]

something designed to trick
magic trick
winning sequence in cards
slang: act of prostitution
slang: customer to a prostitute

Verb [edit]

trick (third-person singular simple present tricks, present participle tricking, simple past and past participle tricked)

  1. (transitive) To fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive.
    You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.
  2. (heraldry) To draw (as opposed to blazon - to describe in words).
    • 1600, Hamlet, Act 2, by Shakespeare
      The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons […]
    • Ben Jonson
      They forget that they are in the statutes: […] there they are tricked, they and their pedigrees.
  3. To dress; to decorate; to adorn fantastically; often followed by up, off, or out.
    • Alexander Pope
      Trick her off in air.
    • John Locke
      Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
    • Macaulay
      They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.

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Translations [edit]

to fool; to cause to believe something untrue

Derived terms [edit]

Terms derived from the adjective, noun, or verb trick
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