PRACTICAL JOKER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does practical joker mean? 

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

1. someone who plays practical jokes on others

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRACTICAL JOKER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who plays practical jokes on others

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

cut-up; hoaxer; practical joker; prankster; tricker; trickster

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

bad hat; mischief-maker; trouble maker; troublemaker; troubler (someone who deliberately stirs up trouble)

 Context examples 

"Unless we have come upon a primitive practical joker," Summerlee suggested, "which I should think would be one of the most elementary developments of man."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘What, be driven out of our own house by a practical joker?’ said I. ‘Why, we should have the whole county laughing at us.’

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)