Definition of prankster
: a person who plays pranks
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For decades, authorities and security professionals have scrambled to keep up with pranksters and criminals — and secretive technology companies — that break into computer networks and figure out how to sidestep the latest security technology.
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Doctorow says this could be abused by pranksters, or by those who want to suppress particular content.
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The effort, dubbed #ThinkBeforeYouPost, reminds would-be pranksters that hoax threats are not a joke and could result in federal or state charges.
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Canadian police have blamed pranksters for dangling a car from a busy Toronto bridge Wednesday morning.
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The report states: 'It was identified in the planning for this game that the iconic nature of the fixture could potentially attract hoaxers or pranksters trying to embarrass the club'.
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Anti-royalist demonstrations could pose another threat, for example, and pranksters have been very determined to disrupt in the past.
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The eyeball-headed, quasi-anonymous pranksters — still nobodies after all these years — will return to the city this weekend, invading the comparatively sedate quarters of the Murmrr Theater with their gonzo sound art.
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Apparently once the cameras were off, the Italian prankster was escorted from the training ground.
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First Known Use of prankster
1910
PRANKSTER Defined for English Language Learners
Definition of prankster for English Language Learners
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: a person who plays pranks on other people
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