Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US black) showing off, boasting, flaunting oneself or one’s possessions.

1931		Cab Calloway ‘Trickeration’ 🎵 Another phrase, / Just another craze, / Everyone in Harlem / Does Trickeration.
1944		Cab Calloway New Hepsters Dict. in Calloway (1976) 260: trickeration (n.): struttin’ your stuff, muggin’ lightly and politely.

2. (US black/prison) the act of fooling, deceiving and otherwise manipulating someone.

1945		C. Himes ‘A Night of New Roses’ in Coll. Stories (1990) 128: The colored fellows were [...] mostly army age but keeping out by hook or crook, drugs and poison, lies and trickeration.
1963		M. Braly Shake Him Till He Rattles (1964) 110: Watch yourself, Cab. This town is full of trickeration.
1967		M. Braly On the Yard (2002) 5: It would still be a small price to pay to be rid of something so full of meanness and trickeration.