tricker

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪkəː/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪkəː]; [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪkəː]

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• (rhotic)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtɹɪkɚ/, [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪkɚ] ~ [ˈtɹ̝̊ʷɪkɹ̩]; [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪkɚ] ~ [ˈt̠ɹ̠̊˔ʷɪkɹ̩]
• Rhymes: -ɪkə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: trick‧er

Derived from trick +‎ -er.^[1]

tricker (plural trickers)

1. One who tricks or plays tricks; a practical joker; a prankster

From Dutch trekker.^[2]

tricker (plural trickers)

1. (British, dialectal, obsolete) A trigger.
   • 1659 December 30 (date written), Robert Boyle, “[Experiment 14]”, in New Experiments Physico-Mechanicall, Touching the Spring of the Air, and Its Effects […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] H[enry] Hall, printer to the University, for Tho[mas] Robinson, published 1660, →OCLC, page 89:

     [W]e pull'd aſide the Tricker, and obſerv'd, that according to our expectation the force of the Spring of the Lock vvas not ſenſibly abated by the abſence of the Air.

• “tricker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Rickert