n.: a fast one, sleight, subterfuge, trap, treachery, trickery, underplot, weaseling, wile, wiles, put-up affair, put-up job, skullduggery, sleight of hand, manoeuvre, clever trickery, secret and cunning plan, evil plot or scheme, stratagem, a cunning stratagem, trick or excuse, esp one used to avoid difficulties, blame, failure, etc, such trickery, thing done in order to deceive or outwit sb, deceit, trick, deception, trickery, artifice, scheme, deceit, flam, angle, art, artifice, chicanery, contrivance