Reverse Dictionary: TRICK

ADJECTIVES
► ANTIC clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful → 1902 Amer. dial.
► ANTIC AS A JAYBIRD clownish, amusing, full of tricks; given to fun, capers, or pranks; joking, playful → 1917 Amer. dial.
► BAGGED fooled, tricked → 1920s sl.
► CHUCKED disappointed, tricked → L19 sl.
► FUNIPOTENT playing tricks with ropes → 1880 obs.
► GAMMOCKY wild, full of tricks → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GAUDY ► GAWDY full of trickery → a1529 obs.
► GYROTWISTIVE full of tricks and evasions → 1869 Amer. sl.
► HAD tricked, hoaxed, deceived → L18 sl.
► JUGGLING playing tricks, cheating, deceptive → 1531
► KIDLING tricking, cozening → B1900 Eng. dial.
► MADE cheated, tricked → 1950s US sl.
► MAGGOTTY frisky, playful, full of tricks, frolicsome → 1820 Eng. dial.
► NANNICKING full of apish tricks; trifling → 1815 Eng. dial.
► PRESTIGIATORY practising ‘prestigiation’; juggling, conjuring; consisting of tricks, impostures, or illusions; deceptive, delusive → 1588 obs.
► SNEETERED – tricked; deceived → 2005 Amer. dial.
► UNMONKEYABLE of a person: impervious to trickery → 1910s sl.

INTERJECTIONS & PHRASES
► FAKE! used by a trickster to underline that someone has been tricked or duped → 1989 US students’ sl.
► I CAUGHT THAT ILL VIBE I was tricked → 1990s African-American teen sl.

​NOUNS
► ABET fraud, cunning, trickery, wiles → 1315 obs.
► ABETMENT deception, trickery → 1586 obs.
► AFFECT an affectation, a trick → 1588
► ANDRAMARTIN a silly trick; nonsense → 1894 Ireland
► ANKY-PRANKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling → 1886 Eng. dial.
► ARMY GAME trickery, deceit, passing responsibility onto others → L19 US sl.
► BACKSPANG an underhand trick, esp. a retreat from a bargain → 1892 Sc. & N. Ireland
► BAM a story intended to impose upon the credulous; a hoax or imposition; a trick, a joke → 1762 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BEGECK a cheating disappointment; a trick → c1600 obs. exc. Sc.
► BEGINK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception → 1725 Sc.
► BEGOKE a trick → Bk1850 
► BEGONK ► BEGUNK a befooling or deluding trick; a piece of deception; a disappointment, misfortune → 1725 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BEGOWK a trick; jilting → Bk1911 Sc.
► BEGUILE a deception, a trick; disappointment → 1637 Sc.
► BOO-BOO a prank, a trick → E20 sl., orig. US
► BUG a trick or hoax → 1848 Amer. dial.
► CALEUP a frolic, a merry trick → Bk1898 Eng. dial.
► CANTILENE an old song; silly prattle; idle tale, trick → 1535 obs.
► CANTRAP a mischievous trick; a magic spell → 1830 Amer. dial.
► CANTRIP any playfully mischievous trick; any whimsically mad, eccentric, or extravagant piece of conduct → 1719
► CAPER a trick; a dodge → 1981 Aust. colloq. (Bk.)
► CAPRICCIO a sudden sportive or fantastic motion; a prank, trick, caper → 1665
► CAST a contrivance, device, artifice, trick → c1340 obs.
► CATCH a trick → c1430 obs.
► CHESTNUT a scheme, a trick → L19 sl., orig. US
► CONY-CATCHING trickery; cheating; swindling → L16 cant
► CRAFT cunning; deception, guile; trickery → 1275
► CRAFTING crafty or cunning behaviour; deception; trickery → 1529 obs.
► CREEK a crooked device; a trick, artifice → 1405 obs.
► CROOK a crooked piece of conduct; a trick, artifice, wile; deceit, guile, trickery → 1175 obs.
► CROSSBITE a cheat, trick, swindle, deception → 1591 obs.
► CUNNY-CATCHING trickery, cheating, swindling → L16 sl.
► DAP a trick, ruse, artifice → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► DEVILMENT mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery → 1844 Amer. dial.
► DEVILTRY mischief, teasing, frolicking, roguery, trickery, wickedness, devilry → 1839 Sc. & Amer. dial.
► DIDOES tricks, antics, eccentric feats → 1835 Eng. dial.
► DINGDO a caper, a prank, a trick → 1900 Amer. dial.
► DODGERY the use of deception or trickery
► DOG TRICK a mean or currish trick; an ill-natured practical joke → 1899 Amer. dial.
► DOG’S TRICK a low or despicable trick; a treacherous or spiteful act; a bad turn → 1742
► FADGE a trick → 1850 UK criminals’ sl.
► FALLACE deception, trickery, falsehood; deceitfulness → a1300 obs.
► FALLAX deception; guile, trickery; fallacy → 1530 obs.
► FALLAXITY deception, guile, trickery; fallacy → c1640 obs.
► FALSE POINT a stroke of deceit; a trick → a1529 obs.
► FAST ONE a trick intended to deceive or defraud; any scheme seen as immoral, corrupt, or underhand → 1923 US sl.
► FLANKER a trick or swindle, a hoax → 1923 Brit. sl., orig. services’ usage
► FLY a trick, a ‘dodge’ → 1861 sl.
► FUN  fraud or deception; a trick played on a person → 1699
► GADGE a trick → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GAFF a gimmick, a hidden trick → 1960s sl.
► GALLIARDISE gaiety, mirth, revelry; also, a merry trick → c1570 arch.
► GAME, THE deception, trickery → 1950s African-American sl.
► GAMES tricks, wiles, schemes, manoeuvres → 1660
► GAMMET fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick → 1865 Eng. dial.
► GAMMETTING frolicking, whims, tricks, pranks → 1873 Eng. dial.
► GAMMOCK a joke, a trick, a prank; rough play → 1819 Eng. dial.
► GAMMON a joke, trick; play, sport, merriment → 1869 Eng. dial.
► GAMUT fun, frolic, sport; a game, joke, whim, trick → 1865 Eng. dial.
► GANSPEL a trick, caper → 1929 Sc.
► GAUD ► GAWD a trick, a prank; often, a device to deceive, a piece of trickery, a pretense; also, a game, sport, or pastime → a1300 obs.
► GAUDERY ► GAWDRY trickery → a1529 obs.
► GEGG a trick, a hoax, a practical joke → 1855 Sc.
► GUILERY deception, deceit, cheating, trickery → 1303 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► GULLERY deception, trickery, imposture; a deception, a trick → 1598 obs.
► GUM-GAME a trick, dodge, or scheme → 1840 US sl.
► GUY a trick or hoax; a prank, a jest, a joke → 1854 Amer. sl.
► GYP a trick or swindle → 1914 sl., orig. US
► HAMGAMS antics, tricks → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► HAMLIN a wile, a trick → Bk1905 Sc.
► HANKY-PANKY jugglery, legerdemain; trickery, double dealing, underhand dealing; dishonest or corrupt activity; deceit → 1841 sl.
► HANKY-PANKYING humbugging, cheating, tricking → 1868 Eng. dial.
► HAWKERY-PAWKERY deceit, unfairness, trickery, hocus-pocus → B1900 Eng. dial.
► HENKY-PENKY trickery, underhand dealing, shuffling → 1886 Eng. dial.
► HICCIUS DOCIUS a formula used by a juggler when performing a trick; a feat of dexterity; a clever trick  → L17 rare
► HOCUS-POCUS a juggler’s trick; thus any form of imposture, trickery → E18 sl.
► HOOK AND SNIVEY ► HOOK AND SNIVVY ► HOOKEM-SNIVEY ► HOOKUM-SNIVEY an imposture or deceit; trickery → 1781 Eng. dial. & sl.
► HOOKER a trick or concealed drawback; a catch → 1966 Amer. sl.
► HUMBUG a hoax; a jesting or befooling trick; an imposition → 1750 obs.
► HYPE originally applied specifically to the deliberate giving of short change, and hence to any cheating or trickery → 1926 sl., orig. US
► ILL-PRAT a mischievous trick → Bk1905 Sc.
► ILL TRICK a mischievous trick → 1899 Sc.
► IRISH TRICK a dirty trick → 1966 Amer. dial.
► ITEM an intention, purpose; a crafty design; a trick; a fancy, a fad → 1887 Eng. dial.
► JACK-UP a fraudulent or dishonest practice or arrangement; a trick, a hoax, a swindle → 1945 NZ sl.
► JAPE a trick, a device to deceive or cheat → a1300 obs.
► JAPERY trickery, deception → 1496 obs.
► JEOPARDY a device, trick, stratagem → 1375 obs.
► JUGGLE a trick or act of skill performed by legerdemain; a conjurer’s trick, esp. one claiming to be done by magic or occult influence → 1664
► JUGGLERY the playing of tricks likened to those of a juggler; trickery, deception → 1699
► JUGGLING the practice of trickery or deception → 1380
► JUNT a trick, cheat → 1608 obs.
► KANCUMS tricks, pranks → Bk1902 Eng. dial.
► KEDIDOES capers, pranks, tricks → 1914 Amer. dial.
► KIMMEEN a sly, deceitful trick → 1910 Ireland (Bk.)
► KINK a development or aspect, esp. if surprising, clever, or tricky; a wrinkle; also, a tricky way of doing something  → 1825 Amer. sl.
► LAIGZ a trick → 1940s W. Indies sl.
► LAITS tricks, pranks → 1805 Sc.
► LAKES games, tricks, goings on → c1200 obs.
► LARK a frolicsome adventure; a spree; a piece of merriment or mischief; fun of any kind; a trick → 1802 colloq.
► LEG PULL an attempt to mislead or deceive others in a playful way or as a joke; a trick or hoax, a practical joke → 1893
► LEGERDEMAIN trickery, deception, hocus-pocus → 1532
– a trick, a juggle → 1550 obs.
► LIRIPOOP a shrewd trick or stratagem → 1605 obs.
► MAGGOTS tricks; nonsense → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MAGOO, THE a lie, a trick, a hoax → 1930s US sl.
► MANAGEMENT a piece of trickery → 1736
► MANK a prank, a trick; a practical joke → 1878 Eng. dial.
► MARLOCK a prank, frolic, a gambol, a lark; a playful trick, a practical joke; a piece of fun or mischief → 1864 Eng. dial.
► MAWK a whim, a foolish fancy; a joke; a trick → 1790 Eng. dial.
► MAXIMS pranks, tricks, practical jokes → 1867 Eng. dial.
► MAY-GAMES tricks, frolics, antics, practical jokes; whims, fancies → 1825 Eng. dial.
► MAYLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row → 1864 Eng. dial.
► MEG’S DIVERSIONS tricks, frolics, rattling fun → 1873 Eng. dial.
► MEGRIMS antics, tricks; gesticulations; grimaces → 1890 Eng. dial.
► MIND-FUCKER a serious problem that tests one’s mental abilities; a trick meant to deceive, confound, or disturb → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)
► MOGE ► MOGUE a joke, a humbug, a trick → 1888 Eng. dial.
► MONKEY BUSINESS foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour → 1883 Amer. sl.
► MONKEY CAPERS monkey business → 1846 Amer. sl.
► MONKEY PLAY foolishness; also, underhand actions or trickery; misbehaviour → 1953 Amer. sl.
► MONKEY SHINE ► MONKEY SHINES a trick, prank, antic; a ruse, wile → 1832 US colloq.
► MONKEY WORK mischief, trickery; fooling around → 1898 US colloq.
► MORG a joke, a humbug, a trick → 1888 Eng. dial.
► MORLOCK a prank, frolic, a lark; a trick, a practical joke; a noisy disturbance, an uproar, a row → 1864 Eng. dial.
► NAAM a trick, a sign of an evil or mischievous disposition → 1911 Sc.
► NICK an act of trickery or deceit → 1887 Sc. 
► NICKNACKERY a petty contrivance; a trick → 1771 US
► OKEY-DOKE a swindle, trick or deception; a confidence trick  → 1967 sl., esp. Black usage
► OLD ARMY GAME, THE any form of trickery, deception, or evasion → 1910 Amer. sl.
► OLD MOODY a cunning trick, a fraud → 1930s sl.
► PAGEANT a part acted to deceive or impose upon anyone; a trick → c1380 obs.
► PAUK ► PAWK a clever, sly way; a trick; a wile → 1811 Sc.  
► PAW-PAW TRICKS naughty tricks → 1785 nursery sl.
► PENNY-COME-QUICK a trick → Bk1903 rhyming sl.
► PHONY JAZZ a lie; a trick; deliberate misinformation → 1950s African-American sl.
► PLISKY a mischievous escapade; a trick, a prank; a practical joke; a frolic → 1786 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► PRINKUM-PRANKUM a prank, frolic, trick → 1596 obs.
► PULL an illicit trick or manipulation → 1861 card-sharpers’ usage
► PUSHOVER a trick; a hoax → 1930s US sl.
► PUSSERY trickery’ → 1950s W. Indies
► QUAFT a trick → 1881 Eng. dial.
► QUAINTISE a device, a stratagem, a trick; an instance of cleverness, cunning, or craft → 1297 obs.
► QUEEF a stratagem, a dodge, a trick; a conjuring trick, a piece of sleight of hand; cunning → 1923 Sc.
► QUEER FUN a cheat or trick that does not work out as intended → L7 UK criminals’ sl.
► QUIBLIN a pun or quibble; a trick → 1605 obs.
► QUICKIE an unexpected, quickly executed manoeuvre or piece of trickery → 1950 US sl.
► QUIFF a dodge, a trick; a knack; a verbal catch → 1881 Eng. dial.
► QUIPS AND QUIRKS tricks, sharp practices → 1871 Eng. dial.
► QUIRK a dodge, a trick; a quibble, catch; a question asked in order to elicit information → 1786 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RACKET a swindle or a means of deception; criminal trickery; hoaxing; a trick, dodge, scheme, game, line of business or action → 1812 sl.
► RANNYGAZOO a deceptive story or scheme; a caper; a prank; a trick; horseplay; nonsense; irrelevant, irritating activity → L19 Amer. sl.
► REAK a trick, a prank; a stratagem, an artifice → 1629 Sc. & Eng. dial. obs.
► RIG a dishonest or fraudulent scheme or enterprise; a trick, a swindle; something used to deceive or defraud a person → 1640 colloq.
► RIG a joke, a prank, a trick, a frolic → 1858 Amer. dial.
► RINKLE an idea, device, or trick, esp. a new one → L16
► RORT a dodge, a trick, a scheme, a racket; a fraudulent or dishonest practice → 1926 Aust. sl.
► RUSE a trick, stratagem, or wile → 1581
► SAMFIEISM deceit, trickery → 20C W. Indies sl.
► SANDY a bluff, a deception, a trick, a joke → 1916 Amer. dial.
► SCHLEINTER ► SCHLENTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem → 1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SCONCE a pretext; an apology, an excuse; a trick; deception → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SCREW a dishonest trick; an imposture; a cheat → Bk1904 Eng. dial.
► SHECOONERY trickery, chicanery → 1845 Amer.
► SHELL GAME any trick; any confidence trick → 1972 US sl.
► SHENANIGAN a mischievous or deceitful trick → 19C Amer. colloq.
► SHENANIGANS deceit, trickery → 19C Amer. colloq.
► SHINE a caper, a prank, a trick → 1836 Amer. dial.
► SHLANTER ► SHLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem → 1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SINONISM a trick, deception; a treacherous act → 1864
► SKIFT an artifice, device, or trick → c1460 obs.
► SKIT a trick; a hoax; a practical joke → 1815 chiefly Eng. dial.
► SKITE a trick; a hoax; a practical joke → 1804 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
► SLANTER ► SLINTER a trick or fraudulent stratagem → 1864 Aust. & NZ sl.
► SMAIKRY mean or contemptible conduct; roguery, trickery → 1573 Sc. obs.
► SMOKE-HOLE an imposture, a trick → 1580 obs.
► SNEDRICKS snide tricks → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► SOPHISTRY n. cunning, trickery, craft → 1385 obs.
► SPOOFERY trickery, hoaxing → L19 sl.
► SPRING a trick, an artifice → 1753 obs.
► STING a tricking or entrapment, either in a confidence scheme or as part of a law enforcement operation → 1975 US sl.
► STRINGER a hoax or trick → 1851 US sl.
► STROKE an underhanded trick → 1970 Brit. sl.
► SUBTLETY a wily stratagem or trick, something craftily invented; a crafty or cunning device, an artifice → 1375 obs.
► SUCK a cheat; a trick → Bk1904 sl.
► SUCK-IN a deception; a disappointing event or result; cheat, a trick → 1856 sl.
► SWIFTIE ► SWIFTY a deceptive trick → 1945 Aust. sl.
► SWIKE deceit, deception, treachery; a trick → c893 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
► TOUR OF PASSE-PASSE a feat of skilful deception or trickery → 1687 obs.
► TRICKERATION a trick or stratagem → 1940 African-American sl.
► VAGES ► VAGUES pranks or tricks → 1523 obs.
► WAGS tricks, mischievous behaviour → 1835 Sc.
► WINKLE ► WRINKLE an idea, device, or trick, esp. a new one → L16

​NOUNS – PERSON
► ANOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person → 1885 Eng. dial.
► BAFFLER a juggler, a trickster; a trifler → 1606 obs.
► BAMBOOZLER one who hoaxes or mystifies by trickery; a trickster; a swindler; a cheat or sharper → 1702
► BAWNS a person full of wicked tricks → 1929 Sc.
► BITE a sharper, a swindler, a cheat, a trickster, an impostor → Bk1698 obs.
► CHINCHER a devious or cunning person; a trickster, a cheat → 1688 sl.
► CONY-CATCHER a deceiver; a trickster; a sharper → c1590 cant
► CRAFTER a person who practices deceit or trickery → 1529 obs.
► CRAFTSMASTER a master of cunning, deception, or trickery → 1717 obs.
► CULLY a person who is easily tricked, culled or imposed on → 1740 US
► GAFF one who tricks or deceives → Bk1992 Mafia-syndicate usage
► GINALL ► GINNAL a trickster; a confidence man → 1971 W. Indies & Jamaica
► HORNSWOGGLE a trickster, a charlatan → 1908 US sl.
► ICE-CREAM (FREEZER) someone who can be easily tricked → 1980s rhyming sl. for ‘geezer’
► IKEY one who plays a duplicitous, ‘sharp’ trick → L19 sl.
► ILLYWHACKER a confidence trickster; a shady liver by his wits; a trickster → c1910 Aust. sl. 
► JAPER a trickster, a deceiver, a seducer, an impostor → 1362 obs.
► JIGGER a shifty fellow; a trickster → 1675 sl.
► JOKE-BOX a person who plays trick or jokes on people → 1969 Amer. dial.
► JUGGLER one who deceives by trickery; a trickster; one who plays fast and loose → 1340
► KAN-KAYERS tricksters; confederates who unite to disparage anything they wish to buy, or make fictitious offers and praise anything they wish to sell → Bk1880 Eng. dial. 
► LEG-PULLER someone who mocks or teases another; one who plays a trick or hoax → 1887
► LURKMAN a trickster; one who lives by their wits → 1945 Aust. sl.
► MANNICK one who plays tricks → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► MOUSE-CATCHER a deceiver, a trickster → 1647 obs., derogatory
► NINETER ► NOINTER a trickster, a sharp, crafty person → 1885 Eng. dial.
► PIGEON a person easily swindled or tricked, esp. in gaming → L16 sl.
► RAG OUT a person who plays tricks; something unpleasant → 1970s US students’ sl.
► RAJ a villain, a trickster → 1940s W. Indies sl.
► RIGGER a ‘thimblerigger’; a professional sharper who cheats by thimblerigging; also, one who cheats by means of tricks, or juggles with phrases, etc. → 1840
► SHARPER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another; often applied to a fraudulent card player or other gambler → 1681 colloq.
► SHARPSTER a person who habitually cheats, swindles, or tricks another, esp. in card games → 1942 colloq., chiefly US
► TOOL a person used by another for his own ends; one who is, or allows himself to be, made a mere instrument for some purpose; a dupe; someone easily tricked → 1663 
► WHEADLE a trickster, a swindler, or card-sharper → 1675 criminals’ sl. 

NOUNS – PERSON – OTHER
► AMPSTER the helper of a showman or trickster, ‘planted’ in the audience to start the buying of tickets, goods, etc. → 1941 Aust. sl.

​VERBS
► ANKY-PRANKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks → B1900 Eng. dial.
► BABOONIZE IT to play the ape; to use apish or foolish tricks or knavish pranks → 1611 obs.
► BAM to hoax, to practice on the credulity of; to deceive, to delude, to impose upon, to play a joke or trick on a person→ 1738 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► BAMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to confuse → 1842 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► BANTER to impose upon a person, orig, in jest; to delude, to cheat, to trick, to bamboozle → a1688 arch.
► BEAT to cheat; to swindle; to bilk; to trick → 1849 Amer. sl.
► BEGINK ► BEGUNK to delude, to play a deceiving trick on, to ‘take in’; to cheat, do deceive; to jilt→ 1821 Sc.
► BEGOUK ► BEGOWK to trick, to befool; to jilt → 1862 Sc.
► BEGUILE to cheat hopes, expectations, aims, or a person in them; to trick; to disappoint, to deprive of, to foil → 1483 obs. exc. Sc.
► BEJAPE to play a trick on; to trick or befool → 1377 obs.
► BE ON THE MARLOCK to play tricks → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► BITE to be gullible; to believe a deception; to allow oneself to be tricked → 1949 US sl.
► BUFFALO to trick → Bk1995 US sl.
► BUMFOOZLE to play tricks upon; to deceive; to humbug; to bewilder, to confuse, to perplex → 1880 Eng. & Amer. dial.
► CALDEE ► CALDEES ► CHALDEE to trick; to swindle → M17 sl.
► CEDAR BIRD to deceive or trick; to make a patsy or fall guy of someone → 1984 Amer. dial.
► CHAFF to talk nonsense, to joke; to banter, to tease, to make fun of; to trick, to deceive → 1872 Amer. dial.
► CHUMP ► CHUMP OUT to trick, to deceive; to make a fool of someone → 1920s sl.
► COME A DODGE  to play a trick → 1968 Amer. dial.
► COME IT OVER SOMEONE ► COME IT WITH SOMEONE to try to get the better of someone by trickery → 1827 sl.
► COME THE GUM GAME OVER SOMEONE to deceive or trick someone → 1840 Amer. dial.
► CONY-CATCH to cheat, to trick, to deceive → L16 cant
► COOTER-HASH to deceive, to trick → 1968 Amer. dial.
► CUCKOLD to cheat, to trick → 1644 obs.
► CUT SHINES to behave in a comic, boisterous, or unruly manner; to play tricks on someone; to make a conspicuous display of oneself → 1848 Amer. dial.
► CUT UP A CURLICUE to act in a devious manner; to play a trick or prank → 1840 Amer. dial.
► CUT UP MONKEY-SHINES ► CUT UP SHINES to play tricks → Bk1905 Amer. dial.
► DAUB to cheat, to deceive, to trick → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► DEAL ON to trick, to deceive, to take advantage → 1970s African-American sl.
► DO A FLANKER to trick, to swindle → 1920s sl.
► EMPTY to trick, to swindle → L19 UK criminals’ sl.
► EUCHRE ► EUCHRE OUT to defeat; to outwit; to cheat, to trick → 1853 Amer. dial.
► FAKE to trick, to fool; to cheat; to swindle; to deceive → 1859 sl.
► FINAGLE to wangle, to manoeuvre, to obtain by devious means; to get or achieve by trickery, craftiness, or persuasion → 1922 Amer. dial.
► FLANK to trick out of → M19 US sl., orig. military
► FLUMMOX ► FLUMMUX to fool, to confuse, to overcome by trickery → 19C sl.
► FOB OFF to appease or trick a person with lies or excuses → 1695
► FUGLE to cheat, to trick → 1719 sl.
► FUN to cheat or cajole a person out of something; to deceive, to trick → 1685
► GAFFLE to trick someone out of something → 2006 African-American sl.
► GAMBLE to deceive, to play a trick upon; to ‘gammon’ → Bk1900 Eng. dial.
► GAME to deceive, to mislead, to trick → 1963 US sl.
► GANK to trick someone out of something → 1995 African-American sl.
► GEGG to hoax, to play a trick on → 1826 Sc.
► GET A GECK to be deceived or tricked → 1568
► GIVE A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain → 1920s sl.
► GIVE ONE THE GECK to mock, to trick, to deceive one → 1583
► GO ON THE ABRAHAM SUIT to resort to trick or artifice → Bk1909 cant
► GUY to hoax, to trick, to put on → 1890 Amer. sl.
► HANKY-PANKY ► HENKY-PENKY to humbug, to cheat, to trick; to be up to tricks → B1900 Eng. dial.
► HORNSWOGGLE to get the better of; to cheat or trick, to swindle, to deceive; to hoodwink, to humbug, to bamboozle → 1834 colloq., orig. US
► HORSE to trick or deceive; to swindle; also, to hoax, to bluff, to flatter, to lie to → 1891 US sl.
► HUMBUG to trick and make a jest of; to impose upon, to hoax, to delude → 1750
► ILLUDE to trick, to impose upon, to deceive with false hopes → 1447 rare
► JABEZ to play a dirty trick → 1923 sl.
► JAG ► JAG OFF to annoy, to irritate, to play tricks on; to disparage; to reject → 1968 Amer. dial.
► JAG AROUND to habitually play tricks or jokes on people → 1968 Amer. dial.
► JAPE to trick, to beguile, to befool, to deceive → 1362 obs.
► JARGOOZLE to confuse, to trick → L19 sl.
► JOINT A PERSON’S NOSE OF to trick or cheat a person out of → 1584 obs.
► JOLLY to tease roughly, to chaff, to abuse, to trick → M19 sl., ?orig. US
► JUGGLE to play tricks so as to cheat or deceive; to practice artifice or deceit with → 1528
► JUICE to trick someone out of something → 2000 African-American sl.
► KIMBAW to trick, cheat, or cozen → 1865 sl.
► LARK to play tricks, to frolic → 1813 colloq.
► LEAD DOWN THE GARDEN PATH ► LEAD UP THE GARDEN PATH to trick, to deceive deliberately, to tease → 1920s sl.
► LEGERDEMAIN to perform tricks, to use deceit → 1483 obs.
► LOAD ► LOAD UP to deceive, to trick, to mislead → 1883 Amer. dial.
► MAKE A MAY-GAME OF to play games with; to trick or deceive → L17 sl.
► MANK to prank, to romp; to play tricks; to pretend to work, to gossip → 1864 Eng. dial.
► MANNICK to play tricks → 1863 Eng. dial.
► MOGE ► MOGUE to deceive, to fool, to trick, to cheat, to humbug; to play a joke on, to make fun of → 1854 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
► MONKEY-SHINE to misbehave; to play tricks → 20C US sl.
► MORG to deceive, to fool, to trick, to cheat, to humbug; to play a joke on, to make fun of → 1854 sl., orig. Eng. dial.
► NAB to cheat, to trick; to cheat with dice → L17 sl.
► NICK to trick, to cheat, or defraud; to obtain something from a person by dishonest or unfair means → 1576 sl.
► NOODLE to fool; to trick → 1803 sl.
► OOTCH ► OOTZ to cheat or trick → 1940 US sl.
► PALM to play a trick, to cheat; to impose upon a person → 1686 obs.
► PALTER to shift, to shuffle, to equivocate, to prevaricate in statement or dealing; to deal crookedly or evasively; to play fast and loose, to use trickery → 1601
► PLANT to swindle, to deceive; to play a trick → 1930s sl.
► PLAY A PERSON A REEL to play him a trick, to give him a scare → 1884 N. Ireland
► PLAY CAPS AND BELLS to act like a prankster; to play tricks or jokes on people → 1969 Amer. dial.
► PLAY ONE A PAGEANT to play him a trick; to impose upon or deceive him → 1530 obs.
► PLAY THE JACK to play the rogue or knave; to do a mean trick → 1609 obs.
► PLAY THE JARG ON ONE to play a trick on one, to make game of one → 1825 Sc.
► PLAY THE NANNY-GOAT to behave like a fool; to play foolish tricks → 1900 Eng. dial.
► PLAY THE WAG to be mischievous; to play tricks → c1585
► PUGGY to play tricks on, to befool → 1891 Sc.
► PULL A FAST ONE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and hope to get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick → 1943 UK sl., orig. military
► PULL A FLANKER to trick, to swindle → 1920s sl.
► PULL A NUMBER to trick, to deceive → 1973 sl., orig. US
► PULL A STROKE to do something daring (often a criminal act) and get away with it by being smarter, faster, and more deceitful than those set to prevent you; to play a dirty trick → 1970 UK sl.
► PULL A SWIFTIE ► PULL A SWIFTY to execute or attempt a deception; to achieve a clever fraud or swindle; to play a deceptive trick → 1945 Aust. sl.
► PUT THE BUG ON to trick or hoax; to get an advantage over somebody by tricky means → 1848 Amer. dial.
► PUT THE CAT IN THE CHURN to play a trick; to do mischief  → 1883 Sc.
► PUT THE FUN UPON to trick; to cheat → L17 sl.
► QUAFT to trick, to deceive → Bk1905 Eng. dial.
► QUEER A FLAT to hoodwink a gullible victim; to deceive or trick → L18 sl.
► QUIFF to come up with a cunning dodge or trick; to go or do well, to get along pleasantly → L19 sl.
► QUIRK to cheat, to overreach; to elude by stratagem; to play a trick or prank → 1791 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► RACKETEER to practise any form of criminal deception, trickery, extortion, etc. → 1920s sl.
► RAMP to tease, to banter, to trick → 1980s Black British sl.
► RIG to make fun of; to mock, to tease; to play a trick on → 1841 colloq.
► RUN A DRAG ON to deceive, to trick, to hoax → 1980s African-American sl.
► RUN A GAME ON to bamboozle, to deceive, to seduce, to confuse, to obtain money by trickery → 1960s African-American sl.
► RUN A HOOLIGAN ON to play tricks on, to defraud → 1920s US sl.
► RUN A RIG to play a prank or trick → 1764 obs.
► RUN A SANDY ► RUN A SANDY ON ► RUN A SANDY OVER to trick, to cheat, to dupe; to mislead, to delude → 1914 Amer. dial.
► RUN ONE’S RIG UPON to play a prank or trick on → 1793
► SCAM ► SCAM OUT to defraud, to trick → 1950s sl.
► SCAMP to play mischievous tricks → Bk1904 Sc.
► SCONCE to extort, to cheat; to trick out of → 1796 Sc.
► SELL to deceive, to cheat, to trick → 1849 sl.
► SELL OUT to deceive, to cheat, to trick → 1884 Amer. dial.
► SHAFT to cheat; to trick; to deceive; to abuse → 1970s African-American sl.
► SHARP to cheat, swindle or trick a person, esp. at cards → L17 colloq.
► SHEAR to fool, to trick → 1608 sl.
► SHUCK to cheat, to deceive, to trick, to mislead someone → 1959 Amer. dial.
► SLUR to cheat or trick a person → M17 obs.
► SNOOKER to trick, to cheat; to swindle → 1900s sl.
► SPOOF to hoax, to fool, to trick → L19 sl.
► SPRUCE to deceive, to trick, to dupe → 1919 sl.
► STRING ALONG to deceive, cheat, trick → colloq.
► STUD OUT to play a good-natured trick → Bk1970 US high school sl.
► SWIZ ► SWIZZ to trick by swindling, to subject to disappointment → 1961 Brit. sl.
► TAKE FOR A RIDE to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain → 1920s sl.
► TAKE FOR A TROT to deceive, to fool, to trick, usually for financial gain → 1920s sl.
► TAKE IN to deceive, to cheat, to trick, to impose upon, to hoax → 1740 colloq.
► WHIP GAME to trick; to take advantage of → Bk1970 US students’ sl.
► WOOL to strip of possessions, esp. by trickery; to outdo by trickery → 1841 Amer. dial.
► WORK A FLANKER to trick, to swindle → 1920s sl.
► YANK to cheat; to trick → US Civil War usage