leg-pull
noun
an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like.
leg-puller
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a word derived from
leg-pull.
Example Sentences
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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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
"Bosambo is a notorious leg-puller," interrupted Hamilton irritably.
From The Keepers of the King's Peace by Edgar Wallace
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
