practical joke
practical joke
nounDefinition of PRACTICAL JOKE
: a prank intended to trick or embarrass someone or cause physical discomfort
— practical joker noun
Examples of PRACTICAL JOKE
- One of the children filled the sugar bowl with salt as a practical joke.
- <friends had left the risqué message on his voice mail as a practical joke>
First Known Use of PRACTICAL JOKE
1776
Related to PRACTICAL JOKE
Related Words: skylarking; adventure, experience, game, lark, time; high jinks (also hijinks), horseplay, play, roughhousing, rowdyism; shenanigan(s), tomfoolery; joking, kidding, teasing; gambit, hoax, maneuver, ploy; deed, feat, mission, performance, stunt; caprice, conceit, fancy, vagary, whim, whimsy (also whimsey); deceit, deception, delusion, fooling, fraud, hanky-panky, hoodwinking, ruse, sham, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wile
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