tricker

See also: Tricker

English

Pronunciation
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪkɚ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtɹɪkə/
  • Audio (UK)(file)
  • 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

Noun

tricker (plural trickers)

  1. (obsolete, UK, dialect) A trigger.
    • 1670, Robert Boyle, Of a Discovery of the Admirable Rarefaction of Air
      we pulled aside the tricker, and observed, that, according to our expectation, the force of the spring of the lock was 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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