prank

A practical joke or mischievous trick.

play a prank

pull a prank on someone

An evil deed; a malicious trick, an act of cruel deception.

She played a cruel prank on him.

Lilius Geraldus ſaith,that Hercules after all his mad prankes vpon his wife and children, was perfectly cured by a purge of Hellebor,which an Anticyrian adminiſtred vnto him.

To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.

“If someone’s pranking me,” Rowlands remembered thinking, “they’re going to great lengths to make it work.”

To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.

To call someone's phone and hang up before they answer, so as to send them a notification (of a missed call) without incurring fees.

Hey man, prank me when you wanna get picked up.

I don't have your number in my phone; can you prank me?

To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously.

In sumptuous tire she ioyd her selfe to prancke

1748, James Thomson, The Castle of Indolence, B:II And there a Seaſon atween June and May, Half prankt with Spring, with Summer half imbrown'd, A liſtleſs Climate made, where, Sooth to ſay, No living Wight could work, ne cared even for Play.

To make an ostentatious show.

White houses prank where once were huts.