Usually means: Playful, mischievous, or silly behavior.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. antics: Merriam-Webster
  2. antics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antics: Collins English Dictionary
  4. antics: Vocabulary.com
  5. Antics, antics: Wordnik
  6. antics: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. antics: Wiktionary
  8. antics: Dictionary.com
  9. antics: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Antics (Interpol album), Antics (album), Antics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. antics: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. antics: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. antics: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. antics: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See antic as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Playful, funny, absurd.
adjective:  (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
adjective:  (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
noun:  (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
noun:  A caricature.
noun:  (often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
noun:  A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
verb:  (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
noun:  (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
adjective:  Obsolete form of antique. [Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.]
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