Definition of "play tricks" []

• Deceive somebody (verb)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "(ORNITHOPTERA CASSANDRA) is the nectar of the hard, dull-red flowers of the umbrella-tree, and this fact assisted in an observation which seems to prove that plants play tricks on insects."
• "A certain clearness of judgment is apt to be the blessed handmaid of uncommon truth of character; the mind that knows not what it is to play tricks upon its neighbours is rewarded by a comparative freedom from self-deception."
• "I played lotto with Mendele and let him beat me; I found him when he was lost, and I helped him play tricks on our elders."