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Verb: play tricks
  1. Deceive somebody
    "We played tricks the teacher into thinking that class would be cancelled next week"
    - flim-flam, play a joke on, trick, fob, fox, pull a fast one on, play a trick on, sucker [N. Amer]

Type of: cozen, deceive, delude, lead on

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