practical joker

1. 1.

   someone who plays practical jokes on others

   Synonymsprankstercut-uptrickstertrickerhoaxer

   Broadertroublemaker

Questions about practical joker

What does practical joker mean?

practical joker means "someone who plays practical jokes on others".

What is another word for practical joker?

Close synonyms include prankster, cut-up, trickster, tricker, hoaxer. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is practical joker a common word?

practical joker is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.