On such occasions, it is regarded as a lawful thing, a standing and ancient practical joke, to pitch any outsider, who may happen to indulge his curiosity by stopping to look on, into the stream.

But it cannot be called a practical joke.

The Schoolmaster looked upon the incident as being in the nature of a practical joke, and resented it.

"He's always playing some practical joke or other.

The victim of this practical joke turned a dull red and the glare she turned on the back of the luckless Tommy's head was proof enough that she knew exactly where to lay the blame.

One side does not keep another in the field the whole day in a one-day match except as a grisly kind of practical joke.

Mr. OXENHAM'S weak points are that sometimes he fails to distinguish between real pathos and sticky sentimentality, and that when he tries his hand at telling a practical joke he does not know when to stop.

buffoonery &c (fun) 840; practical joke; horseplay. scorn, contempt &c 930.

It is not nearly so easy to take a practical joke as to perpetrate one.

Up to this time I had assumed and played my role as a white man with a certain degree of nonchalance, a carelessness as to the outcome, which made the whole thing more amusing to me than serious; but now I ceased to regard "being a white man" as a sort of practical joke.

"Who could have played such a horrid practical joke on me?

But unless you are prepared to consider this crime as an elaborate hoaxas a practical joke carried out by a facetious criminal of extraordinary knowledge, skill and general attainmentsyou must, after all, come to the only conclusion that the facts justify: that the safe was opened and the property abstracted by the prisoner.

A neat practical joke was that perpetrated by one of our contributors, who, having been requested to bring us "something pat," walked into our office a day or two after with a couple of Fenian generals in tow.

Curiosity induced him to look into the box upon the way, and, seeing the contents, he supposed himself to be the victim of a practical joke, and emptied them out into a ditch.

Chief among these is that ancient thing called the Practical Joke.

But for the fact that she knew it to be out of the question, she would have suspected a foolish and vulgar practical joke.

Indeed, I should have put the whole thing down as a practical joke of Mr. Cullen's party, if it had not been for the loss of the registered letters.

The poor, dumb idiot took it all as a practical joke among friends.

I was just beginning to wonder if we had not been the dupes of some practical joke, when from a room opening into the vestibule a light shone forth.

In all Sports, Winter and Summer, the supremacy of the Practical Joke Department is unchallenged.

The leader of the moment was the man or woman who could sing the most daring song, tell the most piquant story, or play the most audacious practical joke, even on the Regent himself.

Sydney Smith was impatient of galleries when he could talk with men and women, and made a practical joke of buying pictures; yet Newton and Leslie elicited his best humor.

He was no longer the same wild, boisterous youth, ever on the look-out for some change, some new diversion or practical joke, which had been his characteristics while Herbert lived.

A bishop, one of the foremost of our scholars, assured me that once he saw a certain animal laugh while playing off a practical joke on another of a different kind from himself.

He had forgotten all about his supposed practical joke when Monday he received another letter from the same house.