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prank

prank (third-person singular simple present pranks, present participle pranking, simple past pranked, past participle pranked or archaic prankt)

1. (transitive) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.
   • 1880 Dante Gabriel Rosetti, For Spring, by Sandro Botticelli, lines 2–3

     Flora, wanton-eyed

     For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:

   • 1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, B:II

     And there a Sea?on atween June and May,

     Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrownd,

     A li?tle?s Climate made, where, Sooth to ?ay,

     No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.

2. (transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick.
   • 2007 May 13, Karen Crouse, “Still Invitation Only, but Jets Widen Door for Camp”, New York Times:

     “If someone’s pranking me,” Rowlands remembered thinking, “they’re going to great lengths to make it work.”

3. (transitive, slang) To call someones phone and promptly hang up

   Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.

   I dont have your number in my phone, can you prank me?

prank (plural pranks)

1. (obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.
   • 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, II.4.2.ii:

     Hercules, after all his mad pranks upon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of hellebor, which an Antieyrian administered unto him.

2. A practical joke or mischievous trick.

Definizione dizionario prank

	burla
	practical joke or mischievous trick

beffa

monelleria

scherzo

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Altri significati:

A practical joke or mischievous trick.

(obsolete) An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

(transitive, slang) To call someone's phone and promptly hang up

(transitive) To perform a practical joke on; to trick.

(transitive) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.