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Recent Examples of prankster from the Web
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Comedian Jo Koy hosts Inglorious Pranksters, an unscripted prank series.
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Youssef, a blue-eyed prankster with a fierce intellect, embodied the verve and defiance of a protest movement that arose from decades of authoritarian corruption.
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Anthony Gill Gill’s teammates might want to be wary, because he is known to be a prankster.
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Anthony Gill Gill’s teammates might want to be wary, because he is known to be a prankster.
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Whoever did the Whataburger post was, um, a little more literate than some other pranksters, and cites Whataburger’s real CEO, Preston Atkinson, as the source of the info, for some extra credibility.
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Others may still see you as sister or friend or prankster or eager volunteer or bedrock of the family or whatever else.
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Mott is almost as much of a prankster as Jogia's Puck.
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According to the prankster, his marks weren’t even that miffed.
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First Known Use of prankster
1910
PRANKSTER Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of prankster for English Language Learners
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: a person who plays pranks on other people
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