" pranks "

 [ "Prank" ]

1: A prank used to mean a practical joke, but the definition has slightly changed in the age of the youtube 'prank' video. Nowadays a prank means saying provocative shit to someone, while secretly recording them, and then screaming "it's a prank, bro, it's a prank" when you elicit a violent response.

  * e.g.,  ... (Youtube Prankster approaches a girl walking with her boyfriend) 

 [ "Prank" ]

1: A well played trick.

  * e.g.,  ... See "practical joke" 

 [ "Is this a prank?" ]

1: Rhetorical question, synonymous with 'is this a joke?' asked when something even remotely unexpected has occurred. Soulless teenage girls have recently been prone to using this phrase because "is this a joke?" has become too mainstream; the use of it gives them a feeling of individuality.

  * e.g.,  ...  Teacher: today we will be having a pop quiz. Teenage girl: is this a prank? what's happening...? Doctor: you're entire family has died in a car accident. Teenage girl: meep. Is this a prank? *drops a french fry on the floor Teenage girl: is this a prank? *absolutely nothing has happened at all Teenage girl: is this a prank? 

 [ "Prank" ]

1: A practical joke. There are the pranksters and the victims, the idea of pranks are to make people laugh, In some cases, even the victim (The good type). Pranks are common on YouTube, they gain controversy which is usually the YouTuber's intention. More Controversy = More Views = More revenue. This is, like many, a word that has lost its meaning through the years and has gotten worse and worse. Silly -> Slight Inconvenience -> Bullying -> "Social Experiment".

  * e.g.,  ... Ethan decided that he would prank innocent shoppers by spitting food on the floor and shouting at the top of his lungs. 

 [ "Prank" ]

1: A word to say when something doesn't go according to plan. E.g

  * e.g.,  ... *Robs a bank* Police: I'ma shoot you 

 [ "Prank" ]

1: n. v. A mean spirited or malicious practical joke. Often pranks are aimed towards authority figures or disliked peers. Embarassing or painful to the prankee, but normally not fatal.

  * e.g.,  ... Filling your friend's fire extinguisher with gasoline. 

 [ "pranked" ]

1: having been on the receiving end of a prank

  * e.g.,  ... lol he got pranked 

 [ "Prank" ]

1: Being a dick to random people on the street.

  * e.g.,  ... Yo so today we're gonna prank some black people by asking them to have sex with them. 

 [ "prank" ]

1: something done to another person, often fatal, with the intention of faking said person out. By claiming that an action was a prank, all faults of the "pranker" are erased.

  * e.g.,  ...  "Once, as a prank, Todd Packer banged every woman in the office." "Dude, why'd you fuckin' stab me in the heart? I'm your best friend!" "Dude, it was a prank." 

 [ "prank" ]

1: the act of hurting or killing someone and following up with the phrase: "it was just a prank, bro!"

  * e.g.,  ... (Person 1 shanks Person 2) Person 1: Hey, it was just a prank!