What is the meaning of trickster?

Someone who plays practical jokes on others.
- synonyms: prankster, cut-up, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker
Someone who leads you to believe something that is not true.
- synonyms: deceiver, cheat, cheater, beguiler, slicker
A mischievous supernatural being found in the folklore of many primitive people; sometimes distinguished by prodigious biological drives and exaggerated bodily parts. .

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