practical joker

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Noun
  • As per previous Super Robot Wars games, the initial teaser trailer doesn’t tend to reveal the full roster of series involved in each game.
    Ollie Barder, Forbes.com, 21 Apr. 2025
  • Star Wars: Starfighter is slated to hit theaters on May 28, 2027, according to the official teaser trailer.
    Samantha Stutsman, People.com, 19 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The event started sometime in the 1980’s when some pranksters began dyeing the fountains as a joke.
    Jessica Farthing, Southern Living, 10 Mar. 2025
  • Po left that group of pranksters after about a year to make it on his own, mostly with this type of idiosyncratic public event.
    Kevin Dolak, The Hollywood Reporter, 28 Oct. 2024
Noun
  • But, of course, seeing one of our best musical comediennes so deliciously live out the maxim that all is vanity is especially a treat for Hilty heads who’ve longed to see her in a Broadway production that lives up to the title of her former TV series.
    Chris Willman, Variety, 19 Apr. 2025
  • On the last day of the season, when the apprentices had been winnowed from 16 to two, then-emcee Donald Trump fired Annie on national television in favor of the comedienne Joan Rivers.
    Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Martinez was looking at cutups Monday morning of 6-6, 20-year-old right-hander Travis Sykora, Washington’s third-round pick in 2023, who’s coming on, uh, quickly.
    David Aldridge, The Athletic, 27 Aug. 2024
  • Apparently all-in on Reynolds, Hollywood is now reasoning that his star power — some chemically adhesive combination of dashing leading man, comic-relief cutup, and lifestyle mogul — will prove irresistible regardless of the context.
    A.A. Dowd, Rolling Stone, 17 May 2024
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“Practical joker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/practical%20joker. Accessed 29 Apr. 2025.

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