sleight-of-hand performer

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• Sleight of hand — Sleight of hand, also known as prestidigitation ( quick fingers ) or léger de main (from the French for lightness of hand ), is the set of techniques used by a magician (or card sharp) to manipulate objects such as cards and coins secretly.cite… …   Wikipedia

• Johnny Fox (performer) — Johnny Fox (born 1953) is a professional sword swallower and sleight of hand expert.Feuer, Alan. Pickled Piglets and Other Curiosities, in Exile. The New York Times, 2005 06 04, p. B1.] Early lifeFox grew up in Hartford, Connecticut, and saw his… …   Wikipedia

• magician — Synonyms and related words: Circe, Merlin, Prospero, ace, airiness, appearance, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, charmer, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, conjuror, coryphee, crackerjack, dancer, dancing girl,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• illusionist — Synonyms and related words: Merlin, Prospero, airiness, appearance, conjurer, delusiveness, escamoteur, fallaciousness, false appearance, false light, false show, falseness, idealization, illusionism, illusiveness, immateriality, juggler, mage,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• magician — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. witch, wizard, sorcerer; prestidigitator, conjurer. See sorcery. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Wizard] Syn. enchanter, necRomancer, conjurer, seer, soothsayer, diviner, evocator, sorcerer, warlock, medicine… …   English dictionary for students

• Tommy Wonder — (November 29, 1953 June 26, 2006) was the stage name of Jacobus Maria Bemelman, a Dutch magician who performed both close up and stage magic. Wonder performed in Las Vegas, Monte Carlo and on Fox television.Fact|date=May 2007Wonder developed an… …   Wikipedia

• conjurer — Synonyms and related words: Comus, Faust, artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, diabolist, diviner, dowser, ecdysiast, enchanter, entertainer, escamoteur, exotic dancer,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• prestidigitator — Synonyms and related words: artist, artiste, belly dancer, burlesque queen, chorine, chorus boy, chorus girl, conjurer, coryphee, dancer, dancing girl, ecdysiast, entertainer, escamoteur, exotic dancer, female impersonator, geisha, geisha girl,… …   Moby Thesaurus

• juggler — n 1. circus artist or performer; magician, illusionist, conjurer, prestidigitator, legerdemainist, sleight of hand performer. 2. trickster, deceiver, deluder, beguiler, Inf. bam boozler; cheat, swindler, defrauder, double dealer, sharp, sharper,… …   A Note on the Style of the synonym finder

• illusionist — noun Date: 1850 a person who produces illusory effects: as a. one (as an artist) whose work is marked by illusionism b. a sleight of hand performer or a magician • illusionistic adjective • illusionistically adverb …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• juggler — Synonyms and related words: acrobat, aerialist, bareback rider, blackleg, cheat, cheater, chiseler, circus artist, clown, conjurer, cozener, crook, defrauder, diddler, equestrian director, equilibrist, escamoteur, flier, flimflam man, flimflammer …   Moby Thesaurus