practical joker

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Noun
  • The brand gave him carte blanche to direct her in a teaser for its Métiers d’Art show in Hangzhou, China, last December.
    Joelle Diderich, Footwear News, 13 May 2025
  • All’s Fair revealed a first look at the Hulu series via a teaser trailer (above) and photos (below).
    Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 13 May 2025
Noun
  • On Monday, Cardi B went live from a hospital bed on Instagram, slamming pranksters who called child protective services to say that her children were in danger, according to the New York Post.
    Brie Stimson, Fox News, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The event started sometime in the 1980’s when some pranksters began dyeing the fountains as a joke.
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Choi is a talented comedienne, so some of her too-drunk drama scenes are entertainingly funny, but at the same time her character’s self-destructive tendencies are also heartbreaking.
    Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 14 May 2025
  • But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
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