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CARD TRICK

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does card trick mean? 

CARD TRICK (noun)
  The noun CARD TRICK has 1 sense:

1. a trick performed with playing cardsplay

  Familiarity information: CARD TRICK used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CARD TRICK (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A trick performed with playing cards

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("card trick" is a kind of...):

conjuration; conjuring trick; deception; illusion; legerdemain; magic; magic trick; thaumaturgy; trick (an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers)


 Context examples 


“Quite a little parlour game—sort of three-card trick, is it not? There are your three men. It must be one of them. You take your choice. Which is yours?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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