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Meanings of trick in English

Portuguese
truque
Catalan
truc de màgia
Spanish
ilusión
Wikidata

An illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers.

      truque
      Portuguese
      travessura
      Catalan
      befa
      Spanish
      broma

      A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement.

            travessura
            Spanish
            embaucar

            Deceive somebody.

                embaucar
                Catalan
                bagasser
                Spanish
                putero

                A prostitute's customer.

                      bagasser
                      Usage of trick in English
                      1
                      The taxman has, however, long ago found a way around this trick.
                      The South African
                      2
                      Old friends, new friends, the neighbours we went trick-or-treating with every year.
                      News.com.au
                      3
                      D. The old trick; picking one text, straining it; and ignoring six.
                      Hard Cash
                      4
                      Just three simple squirts in the right places will do the trick.
                      Triplanetary
                      5
                      The new Apple TV could be Steve Jobs' best sleight-of-hand trick yet.
                      Wired
                      6
                      It was a trick she'd used often enough to know it worked.
                      The Assassin’s Blade
                      7
                      It was a trick of the moonlight; it often deceives us so.
                      The Lost Treasure of Trevlyn: A Story of the Days of the Gunpowd...
                      8
                      Of course this trick won't work if you buy the coffee yourself.
                      The South African
                      9
                      The trick is to weed them out in good time, he said.
                      Reuters
                      10
                      There is a very clever trick in India called the mango trick.
                      Addresses by Henry Drummond
                      11
                      Yes, but I have not swallowed the hook; I scented the trick.
                      The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2
                      12
                      The trick was simply to work out what the details might be.
                      The Gods Themselves
                      13
                      The deed, in the circumstances, assumed the appearance of a sleight-of-hand trick.
                      The Teeth of the Tiger
                      14
                      The trick was to enjoy the time when things were going right.
                      The evolutionary void
                      15
                      The trick was not new; but it was also not very difficult.
                      The Clique of Gold
                      16
                      It was the oldest trick in the world, perhaps on any planet.
                      Key Out of Time
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                      Translations for trick
                      Trick through the time
                      Trick across language varieties
                      South Africa
                      Common
                      Australia
                      Common
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