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tricklike en · ADJ

Etymology

From trick + -like.

Meanings

1. Resembling or characteristic of a trick.
   • The anecdotes they coin, whether in half-hearted travelogues or in cynical Benetton catalogues, invoke that developmental schema to recapitulate the West's erstwhile commodity enchantment through its tricklike discovery in the past-as-present eyes of the enchanted Other. 2000, Paul Magee, From Here to Tierra Del Fuego, page 38:

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