the use or practice of tricks or stratagems to deceive; artifice; deception.

a trick used to deceive.

noun

bait and switch , cheat , cheating , chicane , chicanery , con , deceit , dishonesty , dodge , double-cross * , double-dealing * , dupery , fast shuffle , flimflam * , fourberie , fraud , funny business , guile , hoax , imposture , pretense , quackery , razzle-dazzle , scam , sharp practice , shell game * , shenanigans * , snow job * , sting * , stunt , swindling , underhandedness , craft , craftiness , deviousness , shadiness , shiftiness , slyness , sneakiness , trickiness , artifice , circumvention , cunning , deception , double-dealing , duplicity , flimflam , indirection , ingenuity , knavery , machiavelianism , machinations , shenanigans , skulduggery , stratagem , tomfoolery , trumpery