a trick that is played on someone as a joke a childish prank The incident was a prank that went wrong.
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NAmE//ˈpræŋkstər//
noun Student pranksters did considerable damage to the school buildings.See prank in the Oxford Advanced Learner's DictionaryCheck pronunciation: prank