Practical Joke

Definition: Practical Joke

Practical Joke

Noun

1. A prank or trick played on a person especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish.

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Amusement

Play; game, game at romps; gambol, romp, prank, antic, rig, lark, spree, skylarking, vagary, monkey trick, gambade, fredaine, escapade, echappee, bout, espieglerie; practical joke; (ridicule).

Deception

Delusion, gullery; juggling, jugglery; slight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation, prestidigitation; magic; conjuring, conjuration; hocus-pocus, escamoterie, jockeyship; trickery, coggery, chicanery; supercherie, cozenage, circumvention, ingannation, collusion; treachery; practical joke.

Decoy, waylay, lure, beguile, delude, inveigle; entrap, intrap, ensnare; nick, springe; set a trap, lay a trap, lay a snare for; bait the hook, forelay, spread the toils, lime; trapan, trepan; kidnap; let in, hook in; nousle, nousel; blind a trail; enmesh, immesh; shanghai; catch, catch in a trap; sniggle, entangle, illaqueate, hocus, escamoter, practice on one's credulity; hum, humbug; gammon, stuff up, sell; play a trick upon one, play a practical joke upon one, put something over on one, put one over on; balk, trip up, throw a tub to a whale; fool to the top of one's bent, send on a fool's errand; make game, make a fool of, make an April fool of, make an ass of; trifle with, cajole, flatter; come over; (influence); gild the pill, make things pleasant, divert, put a good face upon; dissemble.

Disrespect

Have in derision; hold in derision; deride, scoff, barrack, sneer, laugh at, ridicule, gibe, mock, jeer, hiss, hoot, taunt, twit, niggle, gleek, gird, flout, fleer; roast, turn into ridicule; burlesque; laugh to scorn; (contempt); smoke; fool; make game of, make a fool of, make an April fool of; play a practical joke; lead one a dance, run the rig upon, have a fling at, scout; mob.

Ridicule

Buffoonery; (fun); practical joke; horseplay.

Crosswords: Practical Joke

Well, I guess it was a pretty funny practical joke. I like the ones where nothing catches on fire (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

It's a joke, isn't it? It's a practical joke. You two are in on it, you bastards (Roswell; writing credit: Ronald D. Moore; Gretchen J. Berg)

A Practical Joke (1898)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• The Practical Joke War (reference)

• The Weirdest, Wackiest, Craziest Practical Joke Book in the Universe (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "practical joke": a practical joke ♦ play a practical joke on smb.. Additional references.

Albanian

shaka në kurriz të dikujt, rreng (fraud, frolic, hoax, hokey-pokey, kicker, prank, rig, trick). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مزحة متداولة, ‏مزاح (badinage, banter, fun, jest, joke, kidding, lark, playfulness, pleasantries, pleasantry, raillery, waggery, wagging, waggish), ‏مداعبة (banter, dalliance, flirtation, jest, pleasantry), ‏المزحة العملية. (various references)

Bulgarian 

лоша шега (rag). (various references)

Chinese 

惡作劇 (mischief, mischievous). (various references)

Finnish

kepponen (trick). (various references)

French

plaisanterie pratique, farce (prank). (various references)

German

ulk (fun, josh, spoof, trick), schabernack (prank). (various references)

Greek 

αστείο διαπραττόμενο εισ βάροσ άλλου. (various references)

Hebrew 

מעש�" קו� �"ס (hoax, jape, lark, prank), תעלול (antic, caper, caprice, hoax, machination, mischief, prank, quip, rag, trick, whim), קו� �"סות (jape, mischief, prank). (various references)

Hungarian

otromba vicc. (various references)

Italian

burla (flout, joke, prank, quiz, trick). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

悪戯 (mischief, prank, tease, trick), 悪巫山戯 (horseplay, mischievous trick, prank), 悪ふざけ (horseplay, mischievous trick, prank). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いたずら (mischief, prank, tease, trick), あくぎ (mischief, prank, tease, trick), わるふざけ (horseplay, mischievous trick, prank). (various references)

Pig Latin

acticalpray okejay.(various references)

Portuguese

peça (article, ask, borrow, pad, request), brincadeira (a practical joke, badinage, banter, dalliance, diversion, drollery, escapade, frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, game, gibe, gird, hoax, humor, humour, jape, jest, jibe, joke, joking, josh, lark, play, pleasantry, prank, raillery, rig, sport, waggery). (various references)

Romanian

renghi (shuffle), festã (farce, gammon, hoax, prank, shuffle). (various references)

Russian 

розыгрыш (hoax, leg-pull, playoff), практичная шутка. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

šala na tuđ račun. (various references)

Spanish

trastada (dirty trick, mischief, prank), broma pesada. (various references)

Swedish

upptåg (antic, antics, caper, cod, Dido, escapade, frisk, frolic, fun, gag, gambol, high jinks, jinks, joke, lark, prank, rag, spree), handgripligt skämt. (various references)

Turkish

el şakası, eşek şakası (egg, horseplay, prank). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-4 letters: acropetal, aleatoric, capacitor, cockatiel, practical, precocial, precoital.

-5 letters: acceptor, acrolect, alopecia, alopecic, apractic, capriole, caracole, coatrack, cocktail, cortical, crackpot, erotical, lakeport, leprotic, loricate, operatic, parakite, parietal, particle, pectoral, petiolar, petrolic, placater, poetical, practice, prelatic, tailrace, traplike, tropical.