prank
noun
a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
had been pranking
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past perfect progressiveof prank.past perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that was ongoing continuously in the past up until another past event interrupted it.
Example Sentences
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“I didn’t expect it because Dave had been pranking me with fake proposals for the past six months,” Ms. Clark said.
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2022
The cow-boy had been pranking with a new game, had lost $1,000, but had plenty more left.
From Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi by George H. Devol
She thought only, and talked only, of her malady, which had been pranking in the oddest manner all day, and had settled, at last, in her "limbs."
From Round the Block by John Bell Bouton
