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pranked

  • past participle of prank.
  • past tense form of prank.

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Kido says they’ve never been on the receiving end of weird or gross trash—or even pranked.

From The Wall Street Journal Feb. 1, 2026

One of them was Rita Skimehorn, the woman from Mascoutah, Illinois, who thought she was being pranked when Pizza Hut HR told her to pack her bags for the USSR.

From Slate Nov. 13, 2025

"It's like Indonesians have been pranked," Lucius Karus from Formappi, a non-profit parliamentary watchdog, told local media outlets.

From BBC Oct. 14, 2025

Eliava, in contrast, was a mischievous charmer who pranked his friends, once dressing as a woman to flirt with d’Hérelle at a dinner party, and kept sketchy notes in the lab.

From Salon Nov. 20, 2024

She’s in and out handling principal stuff: a parent protesting her daughter’s F; a pranked substitute teacher crying; a broken window.

From "The Crossover" by Kwame Alexander