Entry Word: prank

Function: noun

Meaning: a playful or mischievous act intended as a joke <as a prank, several students managed to change all the classroom clocks to different times>

Synonyms antic, caper, escapade, frolic, practical joke, trick

Related Words skylarking; adventure, experience, game, lark, time; high jinks, horseplay, play, roughhousing, rowdiness; shenanigans, tomfoolery; joking, kidding, teasing; gambit, hoax, maneuver, ploy; deed, feat, mission, performance, stunt; caprice, conceit, fancy, vagary, whim, whimsy; deceit, deception, delusion, fooling, fraud, hoodwinking, ruse, sham, stratagem, subterfuge, trickery, wile