Usually means: Deceptive figure causing mischief, chaos.
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  1. trickster: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. trickster: Merriam-Webster
  3. trickster: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. trickster: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. trickster: Collins English Dictionary
  6. trickster: Vocabulary.com
  7. Trickster, trickster: Wordnik
  8. trickster: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. trickster: Wiktionary
  10. trickster: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. trickster: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. trickster: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. trickster: Dictionary.com
  14. The Trickster (Supernatural), The trickster, Trickster (Supernatural), Trickster (TV series), Trickster (album), Trickster (anime), Trickster (comics), Trickster (disambiguation), Trickster (song), Trickster: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Trickster: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. trickster: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. trickster: Rhymezone
  18. Trickster: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. trickster: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. trickster: FreeDictionary.org
  21. trickster: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. trickster: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. trickster: Legal dictionary

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  1. trickster: Encyclopedia

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  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

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  1. Glossary of spiritual and religious terms (No longer online)

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  1. Trickster, the trickster: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See trickstering as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (mythology, literature) Any of numerous figures featuring in various mythologies and folk traditions, who use guile and secret knowledge to challenge authority and play tricks and pranks on others with their acts of trickery; any similar figure in literature.
noun:  One who plays tricks or pranks on others.
noun:  One who performs tricks (parts of a magician act or entertainingly difficult physical actions).
noun:  An impish or playful person.
noun:  A fraud or cheat (person who performs a trick or hoax full of falsehoods for the purpose of unlawful gain).
verb:  (intransitive) To engage in the antics of a trickster; to play tricks.

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