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单词 trick
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tricknoun [ C ]

uk/trɪk/us/trɪk/

trick noun [ C ] (ACT OF DECEIVING)

B1 an action that is intended to deceive, either as a way of cheating someone, or as a joke or form of entertainment:

She played a really nasty trick on me - she put syrup in my shampoo bottle!
My niece was showing me all the tricks that she's learned to do with her new magic set.
It's trick photography - she's supposed to look like she's walking on water.
be a trick of the light

to be an effect caused by light, making something appear different:

For a moment I thought you had a patch of grey hair, but it's just a trick of the light.
trick or treat?

what children say when they go trick-or-treating at Halloween

More examples

  • She played a dirty trick on me by telling me Diane was having a party when she wasn't.
  • That was a pretty low trick to play.
  • I'll show you a magic trick.
  • They're plotting to play a trick on their brother.
  • No one's gonna pull that kind of trick on me!

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Cheating & tricking

  • a numbers game idiom
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • fleece
  • gag
  • honeyfuggle
  • hoodwink
  • impersonate
  • jape
  • jiggery-pokery
  • ruse
  • scam
  • scammer
  • screw
  • sell sb a bill of goods idiom
  • shaft
  • wool
  • worm

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Giving out light

trick noun [ C ] (METHOD)

B2 an effective or quick way of doing something:

What's the trick to getting this chair to fold up?
On page 21, some tricks to speed up your beauty routine.

More examples

  • The trick to making custard is to keep stirring.
  • He told me a few good tricks for controlling the class.
  • In this article, she shares her beauty tricks with the nation.
  • What's your trick for perfect pastry?

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Ways of achieving things

  • a means to an end idiom
  • actively
  • another
  • avenue
  • basis
  • channel
  • fair
  • jump
  • mean
  • medium
  • mixed media
  • modality
  • modus operandi
  • one way or another idiom
  • one-handed
  • resort
  • vein
  • what's the drill for sth? idiom
  • whereby
  • workings

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Idiom(s)

do the trick
every trick in the book
how's tricks?
trick of the trade

trickverb [ T ]

uk/trɪk/us/trɪk/

B2 to deceive someone, often as a part of a plan:

Dean tricked the old lady into giving him eight hundred dollars.

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Cheating & tricking

  • a numbers game idiom
  • bad faith
  • bamboozle
  • bilk
  • blackmail
  • fleece
  • gag
  • honeyfuggle
  • hoodwink
  • impersonate
  • jape
  • jiggery-pokery
  • ruse
  • scam
  • scammer
  • screw
  • sell sb a bill of goods idiom
  • shaft
  • wool
  • worm

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trickadjective [ before noun ]

uk/trɪk/us/trɪk/

trick adjective [ before noun ] (DECEIVING)

used to deceive someone, either as a joke or form of entertainment or so that they makes a mistake:

a trick question

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Sly & devious

  • artful
  • backdoor
  • calculating
  • calculation
  • conniving
  • conspiratorial
  • cunning
  • devious
  • disingenuous
  • fox
  • foxy
  • guile
  • Machiavellian
  • scheme
  • sleight of hand
  • sneaky
  • tricky
  • wily

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trick adjective [ before noun ] (WEAK)

US A trick part of the body, especially a joint (= place where two bones are connected), sometimes feels weak suddenly and unexpectedly:

I have a trick ankle that gives me problems if I run too much.

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Problems & bones, joints & teeth

  • arthritic
  • arthrosis
  • bruxism
  • central giant cell granuloma
  • chondrosarcoma
  • chordoma
  • fracture
  • gout
  • impacted
  • osteoarthritis
  • put sth out 1
  • repetitive strain injury
  • rheumatology
  • root canal
  • RSI
  • slipped disc
  • teeth grinding
  • temporomandibular joint disorder
  • toothache
  • trigger finger

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