trick

1. 1.

   deceive somebody

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

   Synonymsflim-flamplay a joke onplay tricksfobfoxpull a fast one onplay a trick on

   Broaderdeceive

   Narrowersnooker

Other forms of trick

plural

tricks·

past tense

tricked·

present participle

tricking·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about trick

What does trick mean?

trick means "a cunning or deceitful action or device". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trick?

trick has 1 syllable: trick. In IPA it is /ˈtɹɪk/.

What is another word for trick?

Close synonyms include fast one, antic, joke, prank, caper. 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 trick a common word?

trick is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.