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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
prankster
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A prankster, shall we say?
▪ A final provocative statement from a life-long prankster, a prodigal son of Harvard, it seems so fitting.
▪ He is fond of Machiavelli the rake, the prankster and the scoundrel.
▪ Is it an emergency, or just a midnight prankster?
▪ Our resident pranksters John Hind and Stephen Mosco offered a variety of campaign services to find out.
▪ Whiston fire station officer Phil Brammeier blasted pranksters who fired a rocket firework through a letterbox in Scott Avenue.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
prankster

1927, American English, from prank + -ster.

Wiktionary
prankster

n. One who performs pranks.

WordNet
prankster

n. someone who plays practical jokes on others [syn: cut-up, trickster, tricker, hoaxer, practical joker]

Wikipedia
Prankster (comics)

The Prankster (Oswald Hubert Loomis) is a fictional character, a supervillain in the DC Comics universe and primarily a foe of Superman. The Prankster's particular gimmick is the use of various practical jokes and gags in committing his crimes.

Prankster (Charlton Comics)

The Prankster was a short-lived comic book super hero who appeared in a series published by Charlton Comics. His only appearance was in Peter Cannon, Thunderbolt #60 in Nov./Dec. 1967 (the title's final issue). He was created by writer Dennis O'Neil and artist Jim Aparo, and is considered O'Neil's first creation.

The Prankster is a freedom fighter in a repressive dystopia called Ultrapolis. Here love, laughter, music, art, and every other expression of human dignity can be a crime punishable by death. So the Prankster fights back with bizarre weapons such as laughing gas, a jet-powered hot-air balloon, and a magic flute.

A second story was promised, but never appeared. It is not clear that the Prankster was one of the Charlton "Action Heroes" picked up by DC Comics, although he appeared in the 1986 DC Challenge.

Prankster

A prankster is a person who plays a prank. Prankster may also refer to:

  • Prankster (Charlton Comics)
  • Prankster (comics), a DC Comics supervillain
  • Prankster Comet, a comet from the video games Super Mario Galaxy and Super Mario Galaxy 2

Usage examples of "prankster".

Unfortunately, Da Vinci was a prankster who often amused himself by quietly gnawing at the hand that fed him.

What scenario seems more likely to you-that a four-hundred-year-old satanic cult has resurfaced with an advanced weapon of mass destruction, or that some prankster at CERN is trying to disrupt a sacred Vatican event with a well-executed fraud?

How could she explain to Cassie that at the grand and elegant inaugural musicale, some cruel prankster had set loose a skunk at the back of her makeshift concert hall?

In addition to the worry about the prankster, she was concerned because she had not heard anything from her San Francisco contact.

I most certainly do, that the prankster is a WAR member in attendance.

We can pick up the cudgels again once the prankster is unmasked and after the murderer has been exposed and incarcerated.

Maggie, placing responsibility on either the prankster or the murderer.

Lindbergh theory holds that Lindy was a prankster, and this was a prank gone wrong.

The prankster, Taran saw, had been up to his old tricks, for he bore some glittering find in his beak.

An enraged Freya demanded the identity of the prankster who had dared to ruin her scene, but there was no one within twenty yards of the faucet except an unconscious drunk with a condom for a hat.

To confirm that, the evident prankster stood a few feet away from his handiwork, laughing so hard he could barely stand up.

They are Disserl, Vasker, Pelasias and Archimbaust: at one time wizards of repute until they too ran afoul of a certain prankster magician.

Huge portions of the complex were open to the public, and wireless cameras had gone missing before, usually stolen by visiting pranksters looking for souvenirs.

How could the pranksters have kept the entire group crammed into one end of the basement all morning?

The nightmare people, or pranksters, or whatever they were, had successfully covered their tracks.