Thesaurus:prank

Thesaurus

prank

English

Noun

Sense: something done for amusement to the detriment of someone else

Synonyms

• caper
• capriccio
• curvet
• gag
• gambade (Scotland)
• high jinks
• lark
• marlock
• monkeyshine
• practical joke
• prank
• prat
• reak (obsolete)
• rag (dated)
• shenanigan
• trick
• windup (UK)

Hyponyms

• 52-card pickup
• apple-pie bed
• April fool
• black fax
• butter-slide
• Chinese finger trap
• ding-dong ditch
• invisible ink
• joy buzzer
• knock down ginger
• nipple cripple
• panty raid
• prank call
• purple nurple
• titty twister
• towel snap
• trick-or-treat
• wedgie
• whoopee cushion

Hypernyms

• joke    [⇒ thesaurus]

Various

• bazinga
• gotcha

Further reading

• “840. amusement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “prank” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.