practical joke

Definitions

A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.

Equivalents

Examples

“The class put⟳ a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.”

“This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. [...] they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses [...]. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver⟳ coal to the façades, or letters addressed to Mr N. O. Body, 24 Leinster Gardens. (There is no letterbox).”

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