play a trick on

1. 1.

   deceive somebody

   “We tricked the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week”

   Synonymsflim-flamplay a joke onplay trickstrickfobfoxpull a fast one on

   Broaderdeceive

   Narrowersnooker

Questions about play a trick on

What does play a trick on mean?

play a trick on means "deceive somebody".

What is another word for play a trick on?

Close synonyms include flim-flam, play a joke on, play tricks, trick, fob. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is play a trick on a common word?

play a trick on 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.