dirty tricks

1. 1.

   underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent

   Broaderbehavior

   plural

Questions about dirty tricks

What does dirty tricks mean?

dirty tricks means "underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent".

Is dirty tricks a common word?

dirty tricks is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.