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trick English

Meaning trick meaning

What does trick mean?
Definitions in simple English

trick

To make someone think something that is not true. He tricked her into thinking he had much money.

trick

Something you do to fool (trick) someone. I did a trick that the children thought was magic. Something special you can do. I know a few tricks with a computer. I taught my dog several tricks, like shaking hands with me. Something clever you do that might solve a problem. I know just the trick for this.

trick

(= fast one) a cunning or deceitful action or device he played a trick on me he pulled a fast one and got away with it an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent that offer was a dirty trick a period of work or duty (= magic trick) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers (= antic) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement deceive somebody We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week (card games) in a single round, the sequence of cards played by all the players; the high card is the winner (= whoremaster) a prostitute's customer

Synonyms trick synonyms

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Conjugation trick conjugation

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trick · verb

Examples trick examples

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Simple sentences

That should do the trick.
You can't fool me with a trick like that.
That's an old trick.
The telegram was a trick to get her to come home.
I was aware of the trick in this magic.
Sometimes the boys would play a trick on their teacher.
He played a trick on his friend.
She played a trick on my sister.
He knows every trick in the book.
Magicians trick their audience into believing they have special powers.
Don't try to trick me!
Mike played a bad trick on his brother.
He thought maybe this was a trick.
He got the money from her by a trick.
I'm going to do a trick with only four cards.
Tom played a trick on Mary.
Want to see a magic trick?
I learned a new trick.
I don't think it's a trick.
I didn't know that trick.
You'll have to find a trick to circumvent that issue.

Movie subtitles

This is like a Matrix logic trick!
Should do the trick.
She's as clever as they come, never misses a trick.
Jimmy and I are gonna go trick-or-treating.
Jimmy and Shannon aren't going trick-or-treating. They're gonna go prank the Murphys' house.
Nydia uses a trick to escape from the guards.
Sofren did one stupid trick after another.
Aren't you ashamed to trick her out of the land where she was born?
Another trick from the Soviets!
Yeah. I bet all this trick furniture set you back plenty, huh?
I believe he did it just so he could play that trick on me.
A trick!
Trick?
What's the trick in that, eh?
Yeah, like I'd fall for the same trick twice.
I bet all this trick furniture set you back plenty, huh?
You trick men into death with your body.
This trick is going to cost Madame a suit for breach of contract.
Maybe it's a trick.
A clever trick, Rainsford.
You talk too much, but you're a cute little trick at that.
You left me without a word purely because I indulged in a womans trick to make you. jealous.
What assurance have I you wont trick me?
It's a conjuring trick, that's what it is.
Not a nice trick you're trying to pull, running out like this. when I was giving you time to rest before I questioned you.
It's a dirty trick, bringing me to New York, just to make a widow of me.
Hope we get on them before they discover the trick.
This could be a trick. She could be working for them.
I played a nasty trick on them.
There is a trick that you must see!
You mean by one of those trick surgeons?
Say, you're a cute little trick.
Thank you, sir, but a lotion won't do the trick, sir.
HOW LONG HAVE YOU HAD THIS TRICK SAFE?
Look, it's a trick hat.
Don't fall for that old trick.

News and current affairs

I estimate that Euro 750 million in the first year, Euro 500 million in the second year and Euro 250 million in the third year would do the trick.
Many denounced Sharon's plan as a trick.
If businesses will not oblige, an income-tax cut would do the trick.
In other words, it is a public relations conjuring trick, designed to make the EU seem more attractive, without actually conferring any real benefits.
Even as a conjuring trick, the Charter could be influential.
Simplification might be intended, at the start, as another conjuring trick: to make the Treaties more comprehensible to voters without changing anything in law.
We should also avoid the cheap political trick of holding down what we pay to poor farmers in order to benefit poor city dwellers.
Under such conditions, a mere nudge in interest rates by the Federal Reserve should set right any residual problem; if not, a tax cut will do the trick.
But would QE actually do the trick?
It might seem from these numbers that Europe has figured out a neat trick: work little, work well.
The trick for the Union is to develop shared solutions and to take joint foreign-policy actions, even when various EU governments see things differently.
It is an old trick: throw enough mud and some of it will stick.
This trick can last a few years, but sooner rather than later budget deficits and growing public debt force a painful policy reversal.
At most, deputies will be able to offer the public a fresh example of a favorite trick in politics: to tell the truth was told and nothing but the truth, but not exactly the whole truth.
The trick for an immigrant is to always buy cheap, because he never knows how long it will be before a car breaks down.
To battle inflation, however, they resorted to a trick.
Fiscal consolidation in the Mediterranean countries might just do the trick, and allow - at great cost - a return to normal financing arrangements.
The trick is to ensure that the economy undergoes the right kind of structural change: a shift from the low-productivity to the high-productivity sectors.
The trick will be to ensure that migrants are given the chance to acquire the skills that European employers need, and that they have the chance to move in a safe, legal, and orderly fashion.
The real question is whether democracy could really have done the trick, and then, whether missiles and tanks are the right method to bring democracy to a country that has suffered dictatorial rule for a long period of time.
This is a cheap trick, aimed to give maximum offense.
At the time of the December 1971 Smithsonian Agreement, 308 yen to the dollar was supposed to do the trick.

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