1. A cleverly executed trick or deception; a conjuring trick requiring manual dexterity
2. Skill and dexterity in conjuring tricks; adroitness in deception

1. The use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them); SYN. chicanery, guile, wile, shenanigan.
2. Verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of one in some way; SYN. hocus-pocus, slickness, hanky panky, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery.