trickeration

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noun

Trickery.

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Meanings

nountrickeration (plural trickerations)

plural trickerations

  1. colloquialdialectalhumorousTrickery.

    "I'm a victim of trickeration. I think I'm destined to be investigated until I die," he says, [....]

    1995, Peter Heller, Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story, page 210
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    "What trickeration?" I inquired. "Atom bomb shelters." said Simple. "Harlem landlords have no intention of building bomb shelters for their roomers.

    1965, Langston Hughes, “Bomb Shelters”, in Simple's Uncle Sam

    Rather, he hoped there was some legal trickeration he could deploy to get a retroactive water right filed and end-run the opposition.

    2005, Jeff Hull, Pale Morning Done: A Novel, page 214

Origin

From trickery + -ation.

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APA

trickeration. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trickeration

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“trickeration.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trickeration. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “trickeration,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/trickeration.

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