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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Knibbe admits he had no idea he was being pranked, although he’s not sure if he actually said out loud that he was the last one to need glasses.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 3, 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
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
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
But when someone asks you for a bullfighting ring in an American public school, you have to know you’re being pranked.
From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman
