trickery, chicanery, chicane, guile, wile, shenanigan
(noun) the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)
trickery, hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery
(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way
Source: WordNet® 3.1
trickery (countable and uncountable, plural trickeries)
(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.
(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.
(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.
(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.
• See deception
Source: Wiktionary
Trick"er*y, n.
Definition: The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
11 May 2025
(noun) a light drumstick with a rounded head that is used to strike such percussion instruments as chimes, kettledrums, marimbas, glockenspiels, etc.
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
