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What (who) is Trick - definition
JAPANESE VISUAL KEI ROCK BAND
Panic☆ch; Panicch; Trick (Panic Channel album); TRICK
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Trick (movie); Sztuczki; Trick (disambiguation); Tricks (disambiguation); Tricks; Trick (album); Trick (film); The Trick; Tricks (film)
I
n.
dexterous feat, sleight of hand
1) to do, perform a trick
2) a card; hat trick
prank
deceitful act
3) to play a trick on smb.
4) a clever; dirty, low, mean, nasty, shabby, sneaky, snide trick
5) a confidence trick (BE; AE has confidence game)
scoring unit in a card game
6) to lose; take, win a trick
misc.
7) to do the trick ('to be exactly what is needed'); one's bag of tricks ('one's expertise'); trickor treat! (at Halloween) (see also tricks)
II
v.
1) (D; tr.) to trick into (to trick smb. into doing smt.)
2) (D; tr.) to trick out of (she was tricked out of her money)
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Trick (movie); Sztuczki; Trick (disambiguation); Tricks (disambiguation); Tricks; Trick (album); Trick (film); The Trick; Tricks (film)
(tricks, tricking, tricked)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A trick is an action that is intended to deceive someone.
We are playing a trick on a man who keeps bothering me.
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2.
If someone tricks you, they deceive you, often in order to make you do something.
Stephen is going to be pretty upset when he finds out how you tricked him...
His family tricked him into going to Pakistan, and once he was there, they took away his passport...
His real purpose is to trick his way into your home to see what he can steal.
VERB: V n, V n into -ing/n, V way prep/adv
3.
A trick is a clever or skilful action that someone does in order to entertain people.
He shows me card tricks.
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4.
A trick is a clever way of doing something.
Tiffany revamped her sitting room with simple decorative tricks.
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5.
6.
If something does the trick, it achieves what you wanted. (INFORMAL)
Sometimes a few choice words will do the trick.
PHRASE: V inflects
7.
If someone tries every trick in the book, they try every possible thing that they can think of in order to achieve something. (INFORMAL)
Companies are using every trick in the book to stay one step in front of their competitors.
PHRASE: v PHR
8.
If you say that something is a trick of the light, you mean that what you are seeing is an effect caused by the way that the light falls on things, and does not really exist in the way that it appears.
Her head appears to be on fire but that is only a trick of the light.
PHRASE: v-link PHR
9.
If you say that someone does not miss a trick, you mean that they always know what is happening and take advantage of every situation. (INFORMAL)
PHRASE: V inflects, with brd-neg
10.
The tricks of the trade are the quick and clever ways of doing something that are known by people who regularly do a particular activity.
PHRASE: trick inflects
11.
If you say that someone is up to their tricks or up to their old tricks, you disapprove of them because they are behaving in the dishonest or deceitful way in which they typically behave. (INFORMAL)
I have no respect for my father who, having remarried, is still up to his old tricks.
PHRASE: v-link PHR [disapproval]
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Trick (movie); Sztuczki; Trick (disambiguation); Tricks (disambiguation); Tricks; Trick (album); Trick (film); The Trick; Tricks (film)
I. n.
1.
Artifice, stratagem, wile, cheat, dodge, doubling, fraud, chicane, blind, feint, manaeuvre, deceit, imposition, imposture, deception, juggle, reach, shuffle, hocus-pocus, swindle, chouse, fetch, humbug, hoax, cog, gammon, cunning contrivance, sharp practice, ruse.
2.
Sleight, juggle, antic, caper, gambol.
3.
Mischievous behavior, annoying conduct.
4.
Habit, practice, peculiarity, particular manner.
II. v. a.
1.
Cheat, defraud, deceive, cozen, dupe, delude, circumvent, gull, chouse, diddle, overreach, impose upon.
2.
[Often followed by up, off, or out.] Dress, decorate, set off, adorn fantastically, bedizen, bedeck.
Wikipedia
Panic Channel
Panic Channel (パニックちゃんねる, sometimes written PANIC☆ch) was an independent Japanese visual kei rock band signed to Mission Music Factory. They perform under two personae: パニックちゃんねる is their gothy visual kei side, and PANIC☆ch is a light visual boy band side.
Examples of use of Trick
1. The main trick, if trick it be, is to remember that abundance is the key.
2. An old political trick Bringing in new blood in the hope of overcoming political doldrums is an old presidential trick.
3. If its party trick is to walk on its hind legs, your guests will think its party trick is to do impressions of Nicholas Soames.
4. His associates claim this is not a political trick.
5. But it could be more than just an electoral trick.