prankster

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" At that point, the prankster should just say "yep, I got you good, the end."

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someone who plays practical jokes on others

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noun

someone who plays practical jokes on others

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prankster.

noun

someone who plays practical jokes on others

See also: cut-up, trickster, tricker, hoaxer

Example sentences

" At that point, the prankster should just say "yep, I got you good, the end."

The prankster only paid for X bandwidth and ran out of it, most likely.

"I get so angry at the tech press, the way they try to spin him as a trickster, a prankster.

What happens if a millionaire prankster sends you 20 messages some day?

Something a jolly prankster would latch onto for the sake of humor.

I have little doubts that he would have been a prankster computer hacker if he were in school today.

The person entering bogus passwords is not a thief, but an otherwise trusted prankster.

The movie is obviously a spoof and fits into Banky's prankster narrative.

And then if someone else did the exact same thing, they'd owe royalties to that prankster, even if the lyrics were changed again?

The last thing you want is for it to be easy for a prankster to create applications that would facilitate cheating or mayhem.

He actually threw music festivals and was a notorious prankster.

"The last thing you want is for it to be easy for a prankster to create applications that would facilitate cheating or mayhem"Mayhem?

If the prosecution asked for a punishment that is congruent with what damage that dry-ice prankster actually caused it would be a step forward.

Widen the scope to also include the suspicious spouse or the prankster roommate and you'll understand why we think this is a bigger deal than you seem to consider it.

Alternate way to frame the question: Why would a prankster alter a company's Web presence in a way that suggests they have experienced a hostile takeover by their biggest competitor?

However, instead of saying "we made a mistake and didn't verify our sources properly," they go on to spin stories like "But is Steve a prankster, or is he a spammer having second thoughts" and "Regardless of its validity, Steves story helped expose a very real issue for Pinterest.

For me, a number of the most memorable flourishes of the book are how formidable it makes some of the other people, at least in some respects --- the defense professor especially, but at various points in the story he turns the formidability firehose on people like Hermione and Aurors and the prankster brothers.