Thesaurus:prank

Thesaurus:prank

THESAURUS

prank

English

Synonyms

• caper

• capriccio

• curvet

• gag

• gambade (Scotland)

• high jinks

• lark

• marlock

• monkeyshine

• practical joke

• prank

• prat

• reak (obsolete)

• rag (dated)

• shenanigan

• trick

• windup (UK)

Hyponyms

• 52-card pickup

• apple-pie bed

• April fool

• black fax

• butter-slide

• Chinese finger trap

• ding-dong ditch

• invisible ink

• joy buzzer

• knock down ginger

• nipple cripple

• panty raid

• prank call

• purple nurple

• titty twister

• towel snap

• trick-or-treat

• wedgie

• whoopee cushion

Hypernyms

• joke    [WS]

Various

• bazinga

• gotcha

Further reading

• “840. amusement” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “prank” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.