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How's tricks?
Meaning
- A dated, playful way to ask how life is treating someone. It is a whimsical approach to checking in on someone's general well-being.
Whimsical, vintage
Used in a sentence
- He hadn't seen his old mentor in years and asked, how's tricks?
- She answered the phone and said, hey, how's tricks?
- The retired salesman looked at his watch and chuckled, well, how's tricks?
The backstory
This is a piece of twentieth-century slang. It treats life as a series of tricks or events that you are navigating.
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