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counterploys

counterploys is the plural of counterploy.

Meaning of counterploy

Noun

counterploy (plural counterploys)

  1. A clever trick used to counteract another clever trick.
    • So it goes. Bluff and counterbluff, ploy and counterploy.1971, William O. Johnson, Super Spectator and the Electric Lilliputians, page 114

Questions about counterploys

What is counterploys the plural of?
Counterploys is the plural of counterploy.

Words near counterploys in the dictionary

  1. counterplotted
  2. counterplotter
  3. counterplotters
  4. counterplotting
  5. counterploy
  6. counterploys
  7. counterpoint
  8. counterpointed
  9. counterpointing
  10. counterpoints
  11. counterpoise

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