Please help me with the meanig of "trick"
Trick can used both as a verb and a noun.it has different meanings according to the context. I reckon the most common understanding of it might be an action or
attempt or device that is cunning or deceitful as a noun and to deceive someone as a verb.but I saw a sentence like this" I have to take two tricks for work ". I don't know what trick means here,so I looked it up in a dictionary. Surprisingly I found it refers to a period of work or duty.So I guess it means work shift in this sentence.My question is that is it used frequently to refer to a work shift? Or Is it even correct to use it in this sentence ?Sorry every one,I forgot to add the context. My friend and I was discussing our plan for the rest of the day.He send me a sentence like this " I will do two tricks for my job" I don't know what "trick" means,so I looked it up in a dictionary. I found trick also refers to a period of work or duty.But I don't think it is frequently used

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Please help me with the meanig of "trick"
Trick can used both as a verb and a noun.it has different meanings according to the context. I reckon the most common understanding of it might be an action or 
attempt or device that is cunning or deceitful as a noun and to deceive someone as a verb.but I saw a sentence like this" I have to take two tricks for work ". I don't know what trick means here,so I looked it up in a dictionary. Surprisingly I found it refers to a period of work or duty.So I guess it means work shift in this sentence.My question is that is it used frequently to refer to a work shift? Or Is it even correct to use it in this sentence ?Sorry every one,I forgot to add the context. My friend and I was discussing our plan for the rest of the day.He send me a sentence like this " I will do two tricks for my job" I don't know what "trick" means,so I looked it up in a dictionary. I found trick also refers to a period of work or duty.But I don't think it is frequently used

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Hi Elaine,
Where did you find that sentence?  If someone said that to me, I would wonder what on earth their profession was.  It is a very unusual sentence (in US English).

P.S. You used "reckon" correctly.  But that's a word that tends to be used by people who are 30 years older than you are.  And male.  And in Alabama.

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I'm a U.S. native speaker. Prostitutes "turn tricks." I have _never_ heard "trick" used to mean any other kind of work.

The commonest use of the noun "trick" is "a deception;" of the verb "trick," "to deceive." The deception can be just a joke or it can be serious fraud.

"The magician seemed to pull a golf ball out of his ear, but of course it was just a trick." "They only were able to balance the budget by using accounting tricks."

A "trick" can also be a clever shortcut that is so easy it feels like cheating. "A quick trick for finding out if an egg is raw or hard-boiled is to try spinning it." "You can borrow my car, but there's a trick to starting it. You have to wiggle the key a bit."

In some card games, such as bridge, a "trick" can be a group of cards that is captured or won by a player.

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In that sentence, "Trick" means the "client" of a Prostitute.

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No I'm sure it's tricks.I checked it for several times.I think my friend means "he has two work shifts." But I do find trick means "a period of work or duty" .But I'm not sure it has the same meaning as shift

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Are you sure it wasn't two trips? As in a bus and a train? Like the others have said - I haven't heard it used like that either. Dan gave a good summary of the 'normal' uses.