Dirty Tricks

Definition: Dirty Tricks

Dirty Tricks

Noun

1. Underhand commercial or political behavior designed to discredit an opponent.

Specialty Definition: Dirty tricks

In politics, dirty tricks refers to duplicitious, slanderous, and downright illegal tactics employed by politicians to win elections and/or destroy opponents. Richard Nixon's staff employed them extensively via Donald Segretti, who went to jail over them. Lee Atwater was a great proponent of them.

Modern Usage: Dirty Tricks

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Dirty Tricks (1989)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Commercial Usage: Dirty Tricks

Domain	Title
Books	Rats in the Grain: The Dirty Tricks and Trials of Archer Daniels Midland, the Supermarket to the World (reference) How to Get Elected: An Anecdotal History of Mudslinging, Red-Baiting, Vote-Stealing, and Dirty Tricks in American Politics (reference) Photoshop 7 Down & Dirty Tricks (reference) Dirty Tricks or Trump Cards: U.S. Covert Action & Counterintelligence (reference) Embezzler's Dirty Tricks and How to Spot Them (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Anagrams: Dirty Tricks

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-d-i-i-k-r-r-s-t-t-y"
	-3 letters: district.
	-4 letters: stickit, tricksy.
	-5 letters: dickys, sticky, strick, strict, tricks, tricky, yttric.
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