English Dictionary

practical joke

名詞

A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.

日本語の意味

他人に損害や不利益をもたらす可能性がある、遊び心を交えたいたずらとしての冗談 / 意図的に仕掛けられ、相手を驚かせたり、困らせたりすることを目的とした悪戯 / 冗談を装って実際に相手に影響を及ぼす、計画的ないたずら

He pulled a practical joke on his coworker by switching the keyboard keys.

彼はキーボードのキーを入れ替えて同僚に悪ふざけをした。

意味（1）

A playful trick done for amusement to the detriment of someone else.

This is a street of elegant stucco terraced houses, two of which (numbers 23 and 24) straddled the mouth of the canyon. … they were knocked down and replaced with fake houses …. So began 150 years of practical jokes, with coal merchants sending young apprentices to deliver coal to the façades, or letters addressed to Mr N. O. Body, 24 Leinster Gardens. (There is no letterbox).

practical jokes （ plural ）