Crossword clues for prank
prank
- Halloween activity
- Bit of horseplay
- Halloween foolishness
- Popular frat activity
- Mischievous caper
- It's pulled in April
- April 1 activity
- Short-sheeting, for example
- Shoe-lacing, e.g
- Scamp's antic
- Practical joker's deed
- Playful gag
- Play a joke on
- Phony phone call, e.g
- Mischievous joke
- Mischievous act
- Means of spooking somebody on Halloween
- Jokester's antic
- Halloween trick, e.g
- Fraternity act
- Feature of some reality shows
- Bit of April Fools' mischief
- Bit of April Fools fun
- April Fools' Day trick
- April Fool's act
- April fool, e.g
- (Amusing) trick
- "The War of the Worlds," famously
- "Pulled" bit of mischief
- "Candid Camera" set-up
- Capriccio
- Short-sheeting a bed, e.g.
- Common fraternity activity
- Fraternity fun
- Call that may result in an abrupt hang-up
- Bit of monkey business
- Short-sheeting, e.g.
- Short-sheeting or T.P.'ing
- Shenanigan
- Shoe-lacing, e.g.
- April fool, e.g.
- April 1 gag
- "Candid Camera" feature
- Acting like a clown or buffoon
- A ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement
- Dido
- Gambado
- Caper
- Lark
- Trick
- Antic
- April 1st activity
- Monkeyshine
- Mischievous trick
- Main part of a seesaw turning left to right as a practical joke
- Practical joke is quietly disgusting
- Practical joke
- It may be pulled
- Bit of mischief
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prank \Prank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pranked; p. pr. & vb. n. Pranking.] [Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to shine, to make a show, Dan. prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D. pronken.] To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank.
--Spenser.
Prank \Prank\, v. i. To make ostentatious show.
White houses prank where once were huts.
--M. Arnold.
Prank \Prank\, n.
A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous
trick; a caper; a frolic.
--Spenser.
The harpies . . . played their accustomed pranks.
--Sir
W. Raleigh.
His pranks have been too broad to bear with.
--Shak.
Prank \Prank\, a. Full of gambols or tricks. [Obs.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a ludicrous trick" [Johnson], 1520s, of uncertain origin, perhaps related to obsolete verb prank "decorate, dress up" (mid-15c.), related to Middle Low German prank "display" (compare also Dutch pronken, German prunken "to make a show, to strut"). The verb in the modern sense also is from 1520s. Related: Pranked; pranking.
Wiktionary
(context obsolete English) Full of gambols or tricks. n. 1 (context obsolete English) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception. 2 A practical joke or mischievous trick. v
1 (context transitive English) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously. 2 (context intransitive English) To make ostentatious show. 3 (context transitive English) To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
WordNet
v. dress or decorate showily or gaudily; "Roses were pranking the lawn"
dress up showily; "He pranked himself out in his best clothes"
n. acting like a clown or buffoon [syn: buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade]
a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement [syn: antic, joke, trick, caper, put-on]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "prank".
In high school, one of my all-time favorite pranks was gaining unauthorized access to the telephone switch and changing the class of service of a fellow phone phreak.
Precursors had played a stupendous prank on themthe biota of Desideratum were derivatives or forerunners of those on Agora.
They enjoyed the changes the sky made hour by hour, and the sound of the wind in the grass and the forest about them, laughed at Downer pranks and ruled the whole world, with power to solve everything but the weather.
Do you think any of the fellows of the escadrille could be up to a prank?
In the great liners, there were masked balls and the advent of King Jupiter, come to play jovial pranks on neophyte travelers, and even in the meaner ships it was a ferial day.
Not until that moment had the poor girl thought of the consequences of her prank, but knowing that suspicion might fall on one of the servants, on someone who was guiltless, Katya was prepared to tell the whole truth.
My Reasons--My Pranks at the Inn--I Dine With the Abbot The cool way in which the abbot told these cock-and-bull stories gave me an inclination to laughter, which the holiness of the place and the laws of politeness had much difficulty in restraining.
It has been ages since we had a problem there beyond mischievous pranks.
Surely Loki the jester god was engaging in his pranks again, because no mortal being could ever come up with such a notion to tempt an already lustsome man.
He had his hands on his hips and was quietly chuckling at the scene before him, as one who, although old, sympathized with the natural and harmless sportiveness of young people and would as lief as not join in a prank or two.
But tha maks a poor fist when tha offers to sing, An tha plays some detestable pranks.
Little children played pranks upon one another, upon the dogs, upon their elders, unrebuked, and the full moon mounted the clear Apache sky to gaze down, content, upon this living poem of peace and love.
What these two students did as a malicious prank could just as easily have been done by a professional industrial spy, perhaps in the pay of a competitor, or perhaps in the pay of a foreign government.
Nevertheless, a wayward glimpse brought unexpected grief, not for the Uncle I knew but the one that I had been cheated of by a boyhood prank gone awry, and all the mistruths and misdeeds it had begat.
Lindbergh theory holds that Lindy was a prankster, and this was a prank gone wrong.