tricker

See also: Tricker

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪkə/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: trick‧er

Etymology 1

Derived from trick +‎ -er.

Noun

tricker (plural trickers)

1. One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster

Related terms

• trick
• trickster

Etymology 2

Noun

tricker (plural trickers)

1. (British, dialectal, obsolete) A trigger.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 14]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects, (Made, for the Most Part, in a New Pneumatical Engine) […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 89:

     [W]e pull'd aſide the Tricker, and obſerv'd, that according to our expectation the force of the Spring of the Lock vvas not ſenſibly abated by the abſence of the Air.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tricker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Rickert