counterploy
nounEtymology From counter- + ploy.
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A clever trick used to counteract another clever trick.
- So it goes. Bluff and counterbluff, ploy and counterploy.1971, William O. Johnson, Super Spectator and the Electric Lilliputians, page 114:
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