prank call
noun
A mischievous telephone call made to trick someone: someone made a prank call to police she received a prank call by a caller claiming to be Russia’s president...
- I would spend hours with my friends devising prank calls.
- I've only made maybe two prank calls in my life.
- Within moments you were using his mobile phone to make prank calls to your ex-girlfriends.
Derivatives
prank caller
- I'm not the type you'd except to be a prank caller.
- Fast food restaurants are not only battling nutrition experts and mad cow reports, but a silent foe: virulent prank callers.
- Prank callers should really get a life.