dirty tricks

noun plural

: secret and dishonest activities that are done to ruin someone's or something's chance of success

Full Definition of DIRTY TRICKS

: underhanded stratagems for obtaining secret information about or sabotaging an enemy or for discrediting an opponent (as in politics)

— dirty trickster noun

1963

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