See counterploy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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{ "etymology_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "en", "2": "counter", "3": "ploy" }, "expansion": "counter- + ploy", "name": "prefix" } ], "etymology_text": "From counter- + ploy.", "forms": [ { "form": "counterploys", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": {}, "expansion": "counterploy (plural counterploys)", "name": "en-noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "English countable nouns", "English entries with incorrect language header", "English lemmas", "English nouns", "English terms prefixed with counter-", "English terms with quotations", "Pages with 1 entry", "Pages with entries" ], "examples": [ { "ref": "1971, William O. Johnson, Super Spectator and the Electric Lilliputians, page 114:", "text": "So it goes. Bluff and counterbluff, ploy and counterploy.", "type": "quote" } ], "glosses": [ "A clever trick used to counteract another clever trick." ], "links": [ [ "trick", "trick" ] ] } ], "word": "counterploy" }
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