Dictionary

practical joke en · NOUN

Meanings

1. A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.
   • This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. [...] they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses [...]. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver coal to the façades, or letters addressed to Mr N. O. Body, 24 Leinster Gardens. (There is no letterbox). 2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 58:
   • The class put a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.

Forms

Deriveds

practical joker

Translations (37)

ru ро́зыгрыш (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · pl psikus (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · yi שפּיצל (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fi kepponen (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · eo petolo (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · de Streich (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · mk мајтап (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · ja 悪戯 (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · cmn 惡作劇 /恶作剧 (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · izh ilve (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · pt pegadinha (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · pl figiel (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu borsot tör az orra alá (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu hecc (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fi kuje (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fr traquenard (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · eo ŝerco (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu otromba tréfa (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fr facétie (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fi jekku (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu ugratás (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · cs kanadský žert (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fr farce (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · sv skämt (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fi pila (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · fi käytännön pila (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · nl practical joke (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu durva tréfa (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · ro farsă (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · sv spratt (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu csíny (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · ko 짓궂은 장난 (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · pdt Kjnifkje (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · hu rossz vicc (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · pt brincadeira (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · es broma pesada (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else) · is brek (something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else)