practical joke

Noun

practical joke (plural practical jokes)

1. A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.
   • The class put a whoopee cushion on the teacher's chair as a practical joke.
   • This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. [...] they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses [...]. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver coal to the...2012, Andrew Martin, Underground Overground: A passenger's history of the Tube, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 58