(v. t.) To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously; -- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See Prink.
(v. i.) To make ostentatious show.
(n.) A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous trick; a caper; a frolic.
(a.) Full of gambols or tricks.
Example Sentences:
(1) She was not aware that it was an assassination attempt by alleged foreign agents.” If at least one of the women thought the killing was part of an elaborate prank, it might explain the “LOL” message emblazoned in large letters one of the killers t-shirts.
(2) The mayor is a good person, but no one invited him, certainly not officially … The pope was furious.” While the prank provided fodder to critics of the mayor, it also underscored a more serious issue between the Vatican and Rome just a few months ahead of the church’s jubilee year of mercy, which begins on 8 December.
(3) The furore over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand's prank-gone-wrong brought the debate surrounding boorish comedy to a head, and has shifted the goalposts for broadcast comedy.
(4) The prank involved a man saying a vulgar phrase on air while Shauna Hunt, a reporter with Toronto-based television news channel CityNews, interviewed fans after a soccer match.
(5) "It's like someone's playing a prank, because we came so close, after having gone through so much," says Sara, Abbas's 24-year-old sister.
(6) Some audience members thought he was part of a prank.
(7) Como Park Zoo and Conservatory came up with the idea in response to a common prank where people leave trick messages for friends from people named things like Don Key and Sally Mander, then including the phone number for the local zoo.
(8) We heard from Plaxico Burress on Tuesday that he put grapes in Eli Manning's shoes for a prank.
(9) The prank is very nearly as cruel as the reality would have been in such an instance.
(10) It felt like a very natural combination on both sides.” The success of the Pokémon April Fool pranks showed that the underlying mechanics of Ingress could be repurposed, to build something that could bring in millions of players who would never usually look twice at the sci-fi trappings of the original game.
(11) April 1, 2016 April Fools’ Day is not historically an international holiday but countries around the world have celebrated a day of pranking.
(12) Rob enlisted James's help to play a prank on another friend, hoisting a bike into a tree, out of reach.
(13) Did he not expect people to laugh out loud at his pranks?
(14) The lightning-fast and scrupulously rational online judicial process through which society punishes the guilty, eg furiously tweeting death threats at an Australian DJ whose prank telephone calls are ethically indistinguishable from murder.
(15) Concluding that only Piz could have concocted such a vile prank, Logan laid down the law, sentencing Veronica’s boyfriend to major beatdown.
(16) The doses were so high and it did it so fast and all over the body, so it would have affected his heart, it would have affected his lungs, it would have affected everything.” Asked how long it took for Kim to die after he was attacked, Subramaniam said: “I would think it was about, from the time of onset, from the time of application, 15-20 minutes.” Kim Jong-nam killing: suspect 'paid $90 to take part in prank' Read more Despite the poisoning, Malaysia has insisted the killing poses no remaining danger to the public and on Sunday declared its international airport a “safe zone” after completing a sweep of the terminal where Kim had been assaulted.
(17) They looked like highly-trained assassins but may actually have been dupes , tricked into thinking they were taking part in a prank TV show.
(18) A Canadian television sports reporter took her on-air trolls to task on Sunday after falling victim to a prank that has overwhelmingly targeted female live television reporters over the past year and four months and appears to brazenly glorify and celebrate the sexual assault of women.
(19) But Prince Charles seemed to make light of the prank at an engagement at HMS Belfast on Thursday.
(20) He later explained that he was taking the "feminine garments to a lady in Gibraltar and thought that he would try them on "for a prank".
Prankster
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) 'A modern revolutionary group headed for the television, not for the factory,' quipped the late Abbie Hoffman, one of the great political pranksters of 1968who helped provoke a bloody battle between anti-war protesters and the Chicago police force at the Chicago Democratic convention.
(2) After John wrote an effusive Instagram post about the call, the Kremlin swiftly denied all knowledge, and it soon surfaced that the pranksters had been involved.
(3) Led by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, they were perhaps the smallest yet most effective bunch of political pranksters to emerge in 1968.
(4) The Russian deputy prime minister, Dmitry Rogozin, who is on the US sanctions list, tweeted that the sanctions drawn up by Obama must have been the work of a "prankster".
(5) Dmitry Rogozin (@DRogozin) I think some prankster prepared the draft of this Act of the US President) March 17, 2014 Updated at 10.08am GMT
(6) As he ambles into the small interview room at Munich’s Säbener Strasse in a plain black T-shirt and trainers, Alaba is unassuming to the point of being shy, a little at odds with his reputation as a social-media prankster – his oeuvre contains a series of shots of the midfielder Franck Ribéry dozing and a nearly-nude double-selfie with his former team-mate Mitchell Weiser, in thongs – and as a typically Viennese lausbub (rascal) who once told the club’s former president Uli Hoeness that he had to “think about” an allegation by a concerned member of the public that he was painting the town red with Ribéry in Munich.
(7) If in the future their schedules allow, he’s ready to meet with him and discuss any questions that interest him.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Listen to hoax Elton John-Putin call by pranksters Lexus and Vovan The tumultuous story of John and Putin began after the singer said in an Instagram post earlier this month that the president had called him and he looked forward to meeting Putin “face-to-face to discuss LGBT equality in Russia”.
(8) Across the fractured kingdom of the Belgians, it was a day of national embarrassment, celebrated by wits and pranksters countrywide.
(9) The hip-hop fan is notorious with team mates for being a prankster as highlighted through his short-lived television series Rio's World Cup Wind-ups.
(10) Jeremy Beadle, a Nineties prankster, proposed that Stagg face a second trial before the cameras.
(11) Russian pranksters say they fooled Elton John with Putin call Read more “They didn’t do any checks on us at all, it was really easy to get through,” said Kuznetsov.
(12) "Oliver is a little bit more of a prankster than Jon – a prankster who is enjoying using his soapbox to steer his viewers toward mischief."
(13) And how the administration thinks increasing CFAA penalties is going to worry either North Korean hackers or ISIS sympathizers (or more likely pranksters ) who take advantage of negligent password practices is anyone’s guess.
(14) The prankster can't resist regaling Brian with anecdotes about his brother.
(15) Žižek, though, is also a political provocateur and an absurdist prankster.
(16) An Australian politician says he has learned a valuable lesson in social networking after he "liked" a Facebook photo without realising that it showed a teenage prankster exposing himself.
(17) Spark, though commended for her "witty care for words," ultimately boiled down to "a lonely, Roman Catholic prankster whispering little dry and lethal jokes about peculiar school mistresses".
(18) Prankster showers Sepp Blatter with fake dollar bills at Fifa press conference Read more The sense of farce surrounding the scandal-hit body intensified when the prankster Simon Brodkin, in character as footballer Jason Bent – self-declared “North Korean World Cup bidding delegate” – showered the longstanding Fifa president with dollar bills seconds before his press conference was due to begin.
(19) He continued: “He and his merry group of pranksters decided for their own reasons it would be better to come out ... he then turns around and rather than deliver on the promises, lies he made to the country, he turns round and slags off people and the country.
(20) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Listen to hoax Elton John-Putin call by pranksters Lexus and Vovan.