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leg-pull

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Definition of leg-pull

as in caper

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Third place was Japanese director Sabu’s Arrested Memory, a crime caper about a detective with dementia who unwittingly wanders off with a multimillion-dollar ransom, sending cops and criminals on his trail.

— Glenn Garner, Deadline, 21 Sep. 2026
To serve it as part of a larger menu, consider following it up with salmon—try Martha’s pan-seared salmon fillets with caper-lemon compound butter.

— Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart, 20 Sep. 2026

Definition of caper

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Amanda Seyfried’s daughter pulled a spooky prank on her just in time for Halloween.

— Hannah Malach, InStyle, 7 Oct. 2026
Over at Team Mauve’s house, the prank starts falling into place when Green and his teammates Jodie Sweetin and Beverley Mitchell get a knock on the door regarding a pizza delivery.

— Natalia Senanayake, PEOPLE, 24 Sep. 2026

Definition of prank

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This was in response to the Heat letting loose with a whole lot of abject silliness during Tuesday’s intrasquad scrimmage, which actually is the perfect time for such antics.

— Ira Winderman, Sun Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
For his part, Khrushchev readily admitted to such behavior in his memoirs, likening his noisy antics to those of revolutionary protesters in the Duma, an imperial Russian legislative body.

— Britannica Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of antic

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To make their mission abroad bearable, the doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers of the Korean War turned to humor, especially practical jokes.

— Rachel Flynn, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
In order to make their kissing scenes even more awkward, the late Larry Hagman would play practical jokes on his Dallas costar Linda Gray.

— Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of practical joke

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There’s no winking at the audience, no sense of camp or parody, just a lot of appealing interactions, plus some wholly superfluous tertiary plots added to expand the story to series length.

— Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 8 Oct. 2026
The punch-worthy parody of Altman’s characterization ramps up once he’s motivated to push back against — or trample over — the safety guardrails that Ilya prizes above all else, but so does the depth of his world-breaking cynicism.

— David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of parody

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In 1961, for instance, a riot erupted at the merry-go-round when police officers alleged a 17-year-old Black rider failed to pay for his admission.

— Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2026
The movie seems to cast blame on Facebook for increasing political radicalization in 2019–2021, including the January 6 riots.

— Emma Gometz, Scientific American, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of riot

Noun

The let’s-put-on-a-show energy and enthusiasm on display in its pages is hard to resist.

— Vince Aletti, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2026
The role required Cruise to transform with prosthetics (including a fat suit and thinning white hair) and a put-on Southern accent, but, mostly, the absurdist satire demanded his full acting range.

— Angelique Jackson, Variety, 30 Sep. 2026

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