'Ploy' definitions:
Definition of 'ploy'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Ploy'
From: GCIDE
- Ploy \Ploy\, n. Sport; frolic. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Ploy'
From: GCIDE
- Ploy \Ploy\, v. i. [Prob. abbrev. fr. deploy.] (Mil.) To form a column from a line of troops on some designated subdivision; -- the opposite of deploy. --Wilhelm. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'ploy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- art,
- artful dodge,
- artifice,
- backstairs influence,
- bag of tricks,
- bat,
- bender,
- binge,
- blind,
- bluff,
- bosey,
- bout,
- bust,
- Byzantine intrigues,
- carousal,
- carouse,
- catch,
- celebration,
- chicanery,
- chouse,
- connections,
- conspiracy,
- contrivance,
- coup,
- craft,
- curve,
- curve-ball,
- cute trick,
- deals,
- debauch,
- deceit,
- design,
- device,
- dirty deal,
- dirty trick,
- dodge,
- drinking bout,
- escapade,
- expedient,
- fakement,
- fast deal,
- feint,
- fetch,
- ficelle,
- fling,
- gambit,
- game,
- games,
- gimmick,
- googly,
- grift,
- hocus-pocus,
- influence peddling,
- intrigue,
- intrigues,
- joker,
- juggle,
- jugglery,
- knavery,
- lark,
- little game,
- lobbying,
- lobbyism,
- maneuver,
- move,
- orgy,
- pass,
- play,
- plot,
- ploys,
- racket,
- randan,
- randy,
- red herring,
- revel,
- ropes,
- ruse,
- scheme,
- schemes,
- scurvy trick,
- shift,
- sleight,
- sleight of hand,
- sleight-of-hand trick,
- spree,
- stratagem,
- strategy,
- strings,
- subterfuge,
- tactic,
- tear,
- toot,
- trick,
- trickery,
- wile,
- wily device,
- wingding,
- wire-pulling,
- wires