Cheat is a synonym of trick.
In transitive terms the difference between trick and cheat
is that trick is to fool; to cause to believe something untrue; to deceive while cheat is to deceive; to fool; to trick.
As an adjective trick
is stylish or cool.
Adjective
(er)
- Wow, your new sportscar is so trick .
Noun
(en noun)
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- the tricks of boys
- (Prior)
- a trick''' of drumming with the fingers; a '''trick of frowning
- The trick of that voice I do well remember.
- He hath a trick of Cœur de Lion's face.
- (Ben Jonson)
- On one nice trick depends the general fate.
- On third trick from 12 m. to 8 am, we have W. A. White, formerly operator at Wallula, who thus far has given general satisfaction.
- Woodside Junction—On 8 hour basis, first trick' $60, second '''trick''' $60, third ' trick $50.
- The Union contends that Fifer was entitled to promotion to the position of Group Leader on the third trick in the Core Room Department.
- (Shakespeare)
Synonyms
* (something designed to trick) artifice, con, gambit, ploy, rip-off, See also* (magic trick) illusion, magic trick, sleight of hand* (customer to a prostitute) john, see also* (entertaining difficult physical action)* (daily period of work) shift
Verb
(en verb)
- You tried to trick me when you said that house was underpriced.
- The rugged Pyrrhus, he whose sable arms, / Black as his purpose, did the night resemble / When he lay couched in the ominous horse, / Hath now this dread and black complexion smear'd / With heraldry more dismal; head to foot / Now is he total gules; horridly trick'd / With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons
- They forget that they are in the statutes: there they are tricked , they and their pedigrees.
- Trick her off in air.
- Tricking up their children in fine clothes.
- They are simple, but majestic, records of the feelings of the poet; as little tricked out for the public eye as his diary would have been.
Synonyms
* (to fool) con, dupe, fool, gull, have, hoodwink, pull the wool over someone's eyes, rip off* (to trick out) mod* See also
Derived terms
* bag of tricks* cheap trick* dirty trick* do the trick* hat trick* how's tricks?* Jedi mind trick* magic trick* politricks* tricker* trickery* trickiness* tricknology* trick out* trick or treat* trick point* trick shot* trickster* tricky* turn a trick, turn tricks
Verb
(en verb)
- My brother flunked biology because he cheated on his mid-term.
- My husband cheated on me with his secretary.
- He cheated death when his car collided with a moving train.
- I feel as if I've cheated fate.
- My ex-wife cheated me out of $40,000.
- He cheated his way into office.
- I am subject to a tyrant, a sorcerer, that by his cunning hath cheated me of this island.
- (Sir Walter Scott)
- to cheat winter of its dreariness
Synonyms
* belirt* blench* break the rules* lirt
Noun
(en noun)
- When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat .
Synonyms
* (card game ) bullshit, BS, I doubt it
Derived terms
* cheat code* cheater* cheating* cheat on* cheat the hangman* windcheater
See also
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Anagrams
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