PRACTICAL JOKE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practical joke mean? 

• PRACTICAL JOKE (noun)
  The noun PRACTICAL JOKE has 1 sense:

1. a prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)

  Familiarity information: PRACTICAL JOKE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICAL JOKE (noun)

Meaning:

A prank or trick played on a person (especially one intended to make the victim appear foolish)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("practical joke" is a kind of...):

antic; caper; joke; prank; put-on; trick (a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "practical joke"):

April fool (a practical joke or trick played on the first day of April)

hotfoot (a practical joke that involves inserting a match surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe and then lighting it)

rag (a boisterous practical joke (especially by college students))

snipe hunt (an elaborate practical joke in which the unsuspecting victim hunts a snipe and is typically left in the dark holding a bag and waiting for the snipe to run into it)