trickster
trik ster
- n someone who plays practical jokes on others
- n someone who leads you to believe something that is not true
- n a mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts
- El Nio, that meteorological trickster with the deceptively innocent name, wreaks havoc on the world's weather.
- With her guile and loping intensity, she's part trickster, part track star.
- I would have to settle for the part of the trickster, a rogue Br'er Rabbit racing through the streets of Tehran.