A trick; a piece of trickery or fraud; a prank or practical joke.

Scottish. A trick, a prank; a jest, a quip. Obsolete.

A performance intended to deceive; a trick. Obsolete.

A trick, prank.

A practical joke; a lark; a capriciously foolish act.

A sportive action, prank, frolic; a trick played in sport, a practical joke. Now rare.

A piece of sport, a joke; a jesting matter, a trifle; a sportive trick or cheat. the jig is up (or the jig is over) = ‘the game is up’, it is all…

A derisive deception, a hoax. Obsolete.

A freakish or mischievous act; a roguish prank; a frolic; a piece of roguery or foolery; a hoax, practical joke.

A hoax, a deception, a ‘take in.’ ? Obsolete.

An act of fraud or deception; a trick played on a person; a joke. Scottish (Orkney and Shetland) in later use.

A mischievous trick; a frolic.

A hoax; a jesting or befooling trick; an imposition. Obsolete.

A piece of humbug; an imposition, a hoax. (slang or colloquial.)

a trick, prank, or hoax played upon someone in order to make that person look foolish and amuse others.

A prank, a practical joke; a frolic; a playful gesture; a flirtatious glance.

A practical joke; a hoax, a piece of mockery or banter; a witticism.

Something said or done to excite laughter or amusement; a witticism, a jest; jesting, raillery; also, something that causes amusement, a…

A trick; a skit. Cf. skit, n.2 2.

An act of hoaxing; a humorous or mischievous deception, usually taking the form of a fabrication of something fictitious or erroneous, told in…

A trick; a hoax; a practical joke; = skite, n. 2. Chiefly dialect.

colloquial. A clever or adroit expedient or trick; a happy device; a ‘dodge’. Esp. (U.S.) in a new wrinkle.

U.S. colloquial. A prank, a caper; an outburst; a display of emotion, energy, etc. Frequently in to cut a rusty and variants.

Funny or farcical actions, dialogue, etc., performed by a clown, comedian, or actor and intended to make an audience laugh. Cf. business, n. 18.

A line for binding or attaching anything; normally one composed of twisted threads of spun vegetable… A hoax or trick. Cf. string, v. 15, stringer, n.…

= string, n. 1n. U.S. slang. rare.

Chiefly Irish English. An untruth; a piece of nonsense; a joke, a leg-pull; a hoax.

A trick, a practical joke.

Hoax, humbug; an instance of this.

an instance of leg-pulling; an attempt to pull a person's leg; cf. leg-pulling n.

Nonsense, deception; foolishness, fuss, exaggeration; (also) an instance of this; a prank, a trick.

Trickery, skulduggery, machination, intrigue; teasing, ‘kidding’, nonsense; (usually plural) a plot, a trick, a prank, an exhibition of high spirits…

A practical joke; a prank.

colloquial (chiefly U.S.). to throw a (also one's) fastball: to assert one's mastery or authority over a person. Compare curveball, n. 2.

A deliberate attempt to ‘wind up’ or provoke someone by misleading or hoaxing; a trick or practical joke. Also attributive, as wind-up artist, etc…