prank
noun
a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
pranked
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past participleof prank.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof prank.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
pranknouna trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.
Example Sentences
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The voice of the colleague who pranked her came back into her headphones.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2026
But when Adidas unveiled the kits for the tournament, swashbuckling centre back Alexi Lalas and his team-mates thought they had been pranked.
From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026
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
How were so many otherwise reasonable people pranked into venturing to an empty Brooklyn Bridge Park in the bleak midwinter as 2025 ebbed to nothing, for nothing?
From Salon ● Jan. 21, 2026
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
