trickeration
nounEtymology From trickery + -ation.
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Colloquial, Dialectal, Humorous Trickery.
- "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:
- "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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- 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: