Trick Definition
- be serious
- To bring about the desired result.
- Used to make a friendly inquiry about a person or that person's affairs.
- To be extremely alert:
The teacher was known for not missing a trick.
- to bring about the desired result
- to be very alert
Other Word Forms of Trick
Noun
Adjective
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Trick
- do
- how's tricks
- not miss a trick
- do the trick
- not miss a trick
- trick out
- turn a trick
- up to one's old tricks
Origin of Trick
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Perhaps from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier; French: tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), but the Old French verb more likely is derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcārī (“behave in an evasive manner, search for detours; trifle, delay”).
From Wiktionary
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Alternatively, perhaps from Dutch trek (“a pull, draw, trick”), from trekken (“to draw”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekkan, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trikaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”).
From Wiktionary
Middle English trik from Old North French trique from trikier to deceive probably from Vulgar Latin triccāre from Latin trīcārī to play tricks from trīcae tricks
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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