Short and Trick

Short

Short verb - To rob by the use of trickery or threats.
Usage example: charged that the used-car dealer had been shorting customers for years

Trick and short are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Trick" instead a verb "Short".

Trick

Trick verb - To cause to believe what is untrue.

Short and trick are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Short" instead a verb "Trick".

Both words in one sentence

  • Series / America's Got Talent Instead of doing one massively impressive trick, his act generally consists of doing a bunch of smaller tricks in a short amount of time.
  • Pull a Rabbit out of My Hat The Pixar short Presto revolves around this trick, where the rabbit happens to be a Bugs Bunny Expy.
  • In short, Obi-wan tries a trick against Maul, is then expecting and counters when Anakin tries it on him, and then Anakin is expecting it when figting Luke.
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