"trickeration" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-trickeration.wav [US] Forms: trickerations [plural]
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  1. (colloquial, humorous, dialect) Trickery. Tags: colloquial, dialectal, humorous

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