prank English

Meaning prank meaning

What does prank mean?

Definitions in simple English

prank Noun

— A prank is an act to trick or confuse someone; a mean act.

prank Verb

— To trick, to joke someone. Bobby likes to prank me by hiding my keys.

prank

— noun (= clowning) acting like a clown or buffoon

— verb dress up showily He pranked himself out in his best clothes

— verb dress or decorate showily or gaudily Roses were pranking the lawn

— noun (= antic) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

Synonyms prank synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as prank?

prank English » English

trick

joke

practical joke

jest

escapade

mischief

caper

lark

antic

jape

freak

put-on

play

gag

wisecrack

teasing

mischievous trick

japery

horseplay

harlequinade

fun

frolic

frivolity

dido

clowning

buffoonery

witticism

wildness

whim

waggery

vagrancy

trim

toy

tog

titivate

tease

strike

sport

shenanigan

ruse

romp

romance

roguery

rig

privateer

prink

primp

prim

perk

overdress

Topics prank topics

What do people use prank to talk about?

Social behavior Social activity

Humor

• What words refer to something done humorously?
  joke play a joke on prank play a prank on farce clowning fooling around tomfoolery buffoonery horseplay monkey business

Examples prank examples

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Simple sentences

Sarah was discerning enough to realize that her friends were trying to prank her.

As a prank, some students let three goats loose inside their school after painting the numbers 1, 2 and 4 on the sides of the goats. The teachers spent most of the day looking for goat number 3.

I hope it was a prank!

Tom and Mary were making prank phone calls.

The young sorceress was ordered to turn Tom back into a human, after the teachers learned of her prank.

I'm sorry. It was only meant as a harmless prank.

Tom likes to make prank calls.

This had better not be some kind of prank.

Movie subtitles

Jimmy and Shannon aren't going trick-or-treating. They're gonna go prank the Murphys' house.

Hey, maybe before we prank the heck out of the Murphys' house, we should stop by a few places for candy.

Well, if you'll tell me why you were gonna prank the Murphys, I'll happily take the cuffs off.

Why did they want to prank the Murphys' house?

Why, captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say. Aye!

As a prank.

Maybe a prank.

Yes, but your little prank did.

After all, this isn't some boyish prank Like setting the house on fire.

Prank call.

A girlish prank, I thought. But the box had gone!

This is not a prank or a whim.

Just a crazy prank.

What? This is no longer a prank. You are in serious trouble.

Your charming prank will cost me at least 25,000 francs!

When you work for Meyerboom, your boss, but moreover your friend, and your prank costs him 25,000 francs, you at least invite him to join in, so that he can have a laugh too.

You weren't involved in that daft prank, but how about a good deed?

This is no childish prank, Miss Brandon, but a cryptic warning of avenging death.

I can't go around giving out private offices and secretaries on the strength of a prank that personally I consider far from funny!

I'm asking him, for the last time, to stop playing his little prank, which I will gladly forgive.

It's not a prank?

Like the story about the unlocked front door. It's probably just a student prank.

I would like to know who pulled off this prank and signed us up here!

It must be a prank.

That's too much! - Don't you think it looks like a prank?

And who ordered this prank?

I would call it a very bad prank.

An innocent prank.

Why, Captain, cutting your hand off was only a childish prank, you might say.

I hope to actually die. Here it's not bad, even if it's due to a prank. A silly provincial prank.

Oh, this guy, this guy, what a prank he has pulled.

Want me to go on with the prank?

The prank about that girl, Isabel.

But it's only a prank.

This is a prank, right?

But this is such an old prank.

How? With a prank.

If everything had been a prank, if I didn't love you.

It was just a prank, one of the boys.