[Solved] Which word means to trick someone?

Trivia: Which word means to trick someone?

Smicker
Whippersnapper
Salopettes
Hornswoggle

The correct answer is Hornswoggle

So why is this answer correct? : If you trick someone, particularly to swindle them out of their money, you’ve hornswoggled them. No one knows for sure when or how this word came about, but it was already in use by the mid-1800s. One legend says it comes from the way a cow would twist its head around to get out of a lasso.

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