practical jokenoun [ C ]
uk/ˌpræk.tɪ.kəl ˈdʒəʊk/us/ˌpræk.tɪ.kəl ˈdʒoʊk/a joke that makes someone seem silly and involves a physical action rather than words:
She glued her boss's cup and saucer together as a practical joke.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Behaving in a silly way
- act/play the goat idiom
- be asking for it/trouble idiom
- be playing at sth idiom
- clown
- cut up
- faff
- fart
- goat
- goof
- goof around
- horse around
- kid
- mess
- mess around
- monkey
- monkey around
- muck
- muck sb/sth about/around
- piss (sb) about/around
- spectacle
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practical joker
noun [ C ] ukus