- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at something idiom
- blonde
- clown
- cut something up
- faff
- goof
- goof around
- have a blonde moment idiom
- horse
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck someone/something about/around
- piss (someone) about/around
- play around
- spectacle
Meaning of practical joke in English
(Definition of practical joke from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of practical joke
practical joke
He admitted that the signal had been a practical joke.
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Is this a practical joke?
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In fact, no one had been responsible; it was a practical joke.
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It is only funny to the kind of mind which thinks a practical joke is funny.
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It would be a rather effective practical joke, though deplorable.
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The acts appear to have been meaningless, and were probably done as a practical joke.
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They cannot ask us to accept these four clauses as anything but a huge practical joke.
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Anything short of that will be a costly and risky practical joke.
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I am happy to say that this kind of practical joke has been insured against and cannot be repeated.
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He put through a telephone call to 999 and asked for an ambulance—that was his idea of a practical joke.
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The acts apear to have been meaningless, and were probably done as a practical joke.
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It was all a practical joke.
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It was a practical joke.
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He is seen sporadically throughout the remainder of the series, usually appearing with a crude remark or playing a practical joke.
This became the inspiration for his later practical joke films.
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farce [feminine], farce…
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skøyerstrek [masculine], påfunn [neuter], grov spøk…
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