n. 25B6; noun
he's capable of any mean trick : STRATAGEM, ploy, ruse, scheme, device, manoeuvre, contrivance, machination, artifice, wile, dodge; deceit, deception, trickery, subterfuge, chicanery, sharp practice; swindle, hoax, fraud, confidence trick; informal con (trick), set-up, game, scam, sting, flimflam; Brit. informal wheeze; N. Amer. informal bunco; archaic shift.
I think he's playing a trick on us : PRACTICAL JOKE, joke, prank, jape; informal leg-pull, spoof, put-on; Brit. informal cod.
conjuring tricks : FEAT, stunt; ( tricks ) SLEIGHT OF HAND, legerdemain, prestidigitation; magic.
it was probably a trick of the light : ILLUSION, optical illusion, figment of the imagination; mirage.
the tricks of the trade : KNACK, art, skill, technique; secret.
he sat biting his fingernails, a trick of his when he was excited : MANNERISM, habit, quirk, idiosyncrasy, peculiarity, foible, way; characteristic, trait.
25B6; verb many people have been tricked by villains with false identity cards : DECEIVE, delude, hoodwink, mislead, take in, dupe, fool, double-cross, cheat, defraud, swindle, catch out, gull, hoax, bamboozle; informal con, diddle, rook, put one over on, pull a fast one on, pull the wool over someone's eyes, take for a ride, lead up the garden path, shaft, do, flimflam; N. Amer. informal sucker, snooker, gold-brick; Austral. informal pull a swifty on; poetic/literary cozen.
25A0; do the trick (informal) BE EFFECTIVE, work, solve the problem, fill/fit the bill; N. Amer. turn the trick; informal do the necessary.
25A0; trick someone/something out DRESS (UP), attire, array, rig out, garb, get up; adorn, decorate, deck (out), bedeck, embellish, ornament, festoon; poetic/literary bedizen, caparison; archaic apparel.