Usually means: Deceiving others for humorous effect.
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  1. pranking: Merriam-Webster
  2. pranking: Collins English Dictionary
  3. pranking: Vocabulary.com
  4. Pranking, pranking: Wordnik
  5. pranking: Wiktionary
  6. Pranking, pranking: Dictionary.com
  7. Pranking: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Pranking: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. pranking: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. pranking: FreeDictionary.org
  11. pranking: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pranking: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pranking)

▸ noun:  (archaic) A showy adornment.
▸ noun:  (archaic) The playing of pranks or tricks; monkeyshines, didoes.

Similar:
trick, clowning, buffoonery, harlequinade, joke, antic, frivolity, caper, prankage, reak, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, sincerity, solemnity

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Similar:
trick, clowning, buffoonery, harlequinade, joke, antic, frivolity, caper, prankage, reak, more...

Opposite:
seriousness, sincerity, solemnity



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