NOUN
- a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)
How To Use practical joke In A Sentence
- frolicsome students celebrated their graduation with parties and practical jokes
- Students give him absurd names and wheel him out for practical jokes and pranks. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
- It's been recorded that during the course of making this movie you had a bit of fun playing practical jokes on one of your co-stars.
- But he still had time to be the practical joker he had always been. Christianity Today
- At home he had been funny, sociable, always ready for a quip or a practical joke.
- To illustrate, she tells the story of the night watchman given to practical jokes.
- He did not join in the sports of other boys, and he was even made the victim of cruel practical jokes by some schoolfellows.
- Related Terms & Expressions: la farce = stuffing une farce = a prank, practical joke un farceur, une farceuse = a practical joker farceur, farceuse (adjective) = mischievous tomates farcies = stuffed tomatoes farci de fautes = littered with mistakes se farcir quelqu'un = to put up with someone avoir la tête farcie = to have had enough (of another's shenanigans, of one's own problems) Ex.: J'ai la tête farcie! Farcir - French Word-A-Day
- The children put salt in the sugar bowl as a practical joke.
- You might think the little fella is as pure as the driven snow but he is a real old practical joker. The Sun
