Noun

(en-plural noun)

Mischievous play, especially by children.

Billy and Tom are playing noisily upstairs again. They're up to their usual shenanigans .

Deceitful trick(s); trickery, games.

You should learn to spot their shenanigans and avoid being fooled.

The advertisement said it would cost $50, but they charged me $75 at the register. I declare shenanigans .

Noun

(trickeries)

(uncountable) Deception or underhanded behavior.

* 1852 , , Bleak House , ch. 1:

In trickery , evasion, procrastination, spoliation, botheration, under false pretences of all sorts, there are influences that can never come to good.

(uncountable) The art of dressing up; imposture.

(uncountable) Artifice; the use of one or more stratagems.

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(countable) An instance of deception, underhanded behavior, dressing up, imposture, artifice, etc.

* 1809 , , Knickerbocker's History of New York , ch. 47:

[H]e did not wrap his rugged subject in silks and ermines, and other sickly trickeries of phrase.

* 1898 , , "See UP" in Stories in Light and Shadow :

The miners found diversions even in his alleged frauds and trickeries . . . and were fond of relating with great gusto his evasion of the Foreign Miners' Tax.