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prank

/prangk/US // præŋk //UK // (præŋk) //

恶作剧,恶搞

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a trick of an amusing, playful, or sometimes malicious nature.

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Examples

  • Nathan for You, which ran for four increasingly artful seasons on Comedy Central, was also hard to explain—it was a prank show, sort of, that satirized reality television and American business ethics.

  • Aubrey Cottle, a security researcher and co-founder of the Anonymous hacker collective, later told The Post he was behind the prank, saying the site’s security is a “joke” and that he “did it for the lulz” — the laughs.

  • While two officers later admitted to what they called a “prank,” there are still discrepancies about the number of officers involved and the number of dead possums they left at the Burger Barn.

  • Around Halloween, Forrest Frankenstein often has to make two calls to order pizza delivery — because on the first try, people assume it’s a prank and hang up on him.

  • Studies show that entertainment, dance, prank, and fitness videos are the most popular within the platform.

  • Another common prank was to spin the cannon in the direction of the major, causing him to leap out of the way.

  • My mother removed them patiently while Grace cackled, thrilled that her prank had been a success.

  • Each series trotted out gags that neither has attempted in years, like the previously mentioned prank phone call.

  • The phone call was dismissed as a prank, despite the sound of gunfire in the background.

  • No one is questioning the urge to get up close and personal with Bradley Cooper, but this prank feels both invasive and dumb.

  • A cowardly, overgrown boy, terrified at to-morrow's punishment for the prank he has played!

  • We should have thought at once the prank that madcap would be at!

  • They were the butts of a prank that no doubt had been the source of many guffaws.

  • And this was natural too, though even the kid prank as he told it came to the same stark and gratuitous horror.

  • Perhaps that very prank had saved Stacy's life, or would save it, for Tad had already made up his mind what he was going to do.