What is "practical jokes"

Usage examples of "practical jokes".

The newcomers, three-year Academy men or reserve ensigns, gloried in their prima-donna freedom from ship routine: sleeping late, playing acey-deucey and cards, fogging the ready rooms with tobacco smoke, drinking gallons of coffee and lemonade, eating big meals and great mounds of ice cream, killing time between drills and lectures with chatter of sex, shore leave airplane mishaps, and the like, perpetrating ham-handed practical jokes.

All practical jokes supported Mike's thesis, even ones as mild as a dribble glass-and when it came to an interne'S notion of a practical joke-Well, internes and medical students should be kept in cages.

All that mattered to her was that he had no reason to hurt the Wildcats with practical jokes.

Youve been playing practical jokes on your team, and some of them have been very dangerous, to say the least.

And old friends came trooping back, laughing as though they had not been dead these many years: Stuart and Brent with their long legs and their red hair and their practical jokes, Tom and Boyd as wild as young horses, Joe Fontaine with his hot black eyes, and Cade and Raiford Calvert who moved with such languid grace.

Gerry's talents ran more toward pyrotechnic pranks, booby traps and practical jokes.

I am inclined toward the joke theory, because he was the sort of man who gives his subordinates a powerful urge to play practical jokes on him.

Jubal decided that, in acquiring a sense of humor, Mike bad developed an atrocious taste in practical jokes-but what the hell?

Like most practical jokes it involved a certain element of risk, but at this time of year the grass was green, and there was no danger of starting a fire.