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The leg-puller is Pierre Perrin, 32, a onetime government clerk whose marriage to Brigitte Bardot's movie stand-in broke up in 1958.

From Time Magazine Archive

You must allow the leg-stretcher to be something also of a leg-puller.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

This story is about a certain Brigade Major who is an inveterate leg-puller.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, Jan. 8, 1919 by Various

"Bosambo is a notorious leg-puller," interrupted Hamilton irritably.

From The Keepers of the King's Peace by Wallace, Edgar