practical joker

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun practical joker has 1 sense

practical joker(n = noun.person) cut-up, hoaxer, prankster, tricker, trickster - someone who plays practical jokes on others; Array

is a kind of bad hat, mischief-maker, trouble maker, troublemaker, troubler

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THESAURUS

practical joker

Artful Dodger, Casanova, Don Juan, Machiavel, Machiavelli, Machiavellian, actor, bad boy, bamboozler, befuddler, beguiler, booger, buffoon, bugger, charmer, counterfeiter, cutup, deceiver, deluder, devil, dissembler, dissimulator, dodger, double-dealer, duper, elf, enchanter, enfant terrible, entrancer, faker, fooler, forger, funmaker, gay deceiver, hoaxer, hood, hoodlum, hooligan, hypnotizer, imp, jilt, jilter, joker, jokester, kidder, knave, leg-puller, little devil, little monkey, little rascal, mesmerizer, minx, mischief, mischief-maker, misleader, pixie, plagiarist, plagiarizer, playactor, prankster, puck, ragger, rapscallion, rascal, rogue, role-player, rowdy, ruffian, scamp, scapegrace, seducer, spoofer, tease, teaser, wag

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ROGET THESAURUS

practical joker

Humorist

N humorist, wag, wit, reparteeist, epigrammatist, punster, bel esprit, life of the party, wit-snapper, wit-cracker, wit- worm, joker, jester, Joe Miller, drole de corps, gaillard, spark, bon diable, practical joker, buffoon, farceur, merry-andrew, mime, tumbler, acrobat, mountebank, charlatan, posturemaster, harlequin, punch, pulcinella, scaramouch, clown, wearer of the cap and bells, wearer of the motley, motley fool, pantaloon, gypsy, jack-pudding, jack in the green, jack a dandy, wiseacre, wise guy, smartass, fool, zany, madcap, pickle-herring, witling, caricaturist, grimacier, persifleur.

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