trickerationn.
/trɪkəˈreɪʃən/ U.S. Black English.
A trick or stratagem (see also quots. 1940, 1970).
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sleightc1340
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cautel138.
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old tricka1822
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trickeration1940
swiftie1945
shrewdie1961
1940 Music Makers May 37/3 Trickeration, struttin' your stuff, muggin' lightly and politely.
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues ix. 138 History was laying some trickeration on us.
1951 L. Hughes Montage of Dream Deferred 18 I believe my old lady's pregnant again! Fate must have some kind of trickeration to populate the cullud nation!
1970 C. Major Dict. Afro-Amer. Slang 116 Trickeration, to show off.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
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