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Etymology

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trick +‎ -like

Adjective

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tricklike (comparative more tricklike, superlative most tricklike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a trick.
    • 2000, Paul Magee, From Here to Tierra Del Fuego, page 38:
      The anecdotes they coin, whether in half-hearted travelogues or in cynical Benetton catalogues, invoke that developmental schema to recapitulate the West's erstwhile commodity enchantment through its tricklike discovery in the past-as-present eyes of the enchanted Other.