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- verb Present participle of
prank .
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Examples
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Okay I liked him on the subway, and hanging in the bus shelter, and that kind of innocuous “pranking”.
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His introduction shows how important first impressions can be: Miner arrives to find Jim pranking Dwight and immediately pegs Jim as a lazy trouble-maker, while Dwight appears to be ideal number two material.
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Once upon a time, America only had "Candid Camera" to turn to when its thirst for pranking needed to be quenched.
WATCH: 9 Hilarious Hidden Camera Pranks The Huffington Post 2011
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"People think we're pranking stars — no," host Mitchell Musso tells TVGuide.com.
VIDEO: Mitchel Musso Recruits Selena Gomez, Debby Ryan to Punk Their Fans in PrankStars 2011
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It used to be that this sort of pranking was limited to Ashton Kutcher and the folks at Dateline.
Vivian Schiller resigns from NPR. So prank journalism is okay now? 2011
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As a young person, probably because I didn't have athletics or good looks to earn me much attention, I turned to pranking for social amusement and gratification.
Millie Kerr: Is April Fools' Day a Forgotten Holiday? Millie Kerr 2011
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Once upon a time, America only had "Candid Camera" to turn to when its thirst for pranking needed to be quenched.
WATCH: 9 Hilarious Hidden Camera Pranks The Huffington Post 2011
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As a young person, probably because I didn't have athletics or good looks to earn me much attention, I turned to pranking for social amusement and gratification.
Millie Kerr: Is April Fools' Day a Forgotten Holiday? Millie Kerr 2011
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And if you take Albert Brook's expository monologue at face value, Nicolas Winding Refn knows he's pranking the critics.
Scott Mendelson: 2011 Year-end Wrap-up: The Overrated Films of 2011 Scott Mendelson 2011
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Signs point to the Yes Men, whose primary way of pranking-the-world-in-order-to-save-it is to pass themselves off as representatives of an organization and make big splashy announcements about major policy changes.
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