prank

noun

1. A practical joke or mischievous trick.

   “play a prank”

   “pull a prank on someone”

   “He pulled a gruesome prank on his sister.”

   “His pranks have been too broad to bear with.”

   “The harpies […] played their accustomed pranks.”

2. (obsolete)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.”

verb

1. (transitive)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.””

2. (transitive)To perform a practical joke on; to trick and make a fool of someone.
3. (slang, transitive)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?”

4. (archaic, transitive)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.”

   “Flora, wanton-eyed For birth, and with all flowrets prankt and pied:”

5. (intransitive)To make an ostentatious show.

   “White houses prank where once were huts.”