sleight of hand

1. 1.

   manual dexterity in the execution of tricks

   Synonymsprestidigitation

   Broadermagic trick

Questions about sleight of hand

What does sleight of hand mean?

sleight of hand means "manual dexterity in the execution of tricks".

What is another word for sleight of hand?

Close synonyms include prestidigitation. 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 sleight of hand a common word?

sleight of hand 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.