prank的意思|prank的解释-里氏词典

prank [præŋk]

n. 开玩笑, 恶作剧, 戏谑

vt. 盛装, 装饰, 打扮

vi. 炫耀自己

prank

[ noun ]

acting like a clown or buffoon

<noun.act>

a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement

<noun.act>

[ verb ]

dress or decorate showily or gaudily

<verb.creation>

Roses were pranking the lawn

dress up showily

<verb.body>

He pranked himself out in his best clothes

Prank \Prank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pranked}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Pranking}.] [Cf. E. prink, also G. prangen, prunken, to
shine, to make a show, Dan. prange, prunke, Sw. prunka, D.
pronken.]
To adorn in a showy manner; to dress or equip ostentatiously;
-- often followed by up; as, to prank up the body. See
{Prink}.

In sumptuous tire she joyed herself to prank.
--Spenser.

Prank \Prank\, v. i.
To make ostentatious show.

White houses prank where once were huts. --M. Arnold.

Prank \Prank\, n.
A gay or sportive action; a ludicrous, merry, or mischievous
trick; a caper; a frolic. --Spenser.

The harpies . . . played their accustomed pranks. --Sir
W. Raleigh.

His pranks have been too broad to bear with. --Shak.

Prank \Prank\, a.
Full of gambols or tricks. [Obs.]

May I speak to Mr. G. Raffe?"' For the second year running, the zoo turned the annual prank into a brief fund-raiser.
For people who want to play a prank on a boss, she has a plan in the works to move the boss's office furniture and to another part of the building.
They had no right to come into my room and go through my personal things." Knapp accused police of dismissing it as a fraternity prank.
But when the medics got to the Virginia delegation, they found no one to help. "I think somebody made a prank call," said Bryan Davis, a convention security man.
Proctor's name was yanked after Macmillan found he was a Western Union telegrapher who'd inserted it in a box score as a prank.
The two swimmers said in a statement Tuesday that they were being exuberant and the incident was a prank to celebrate their gold medal victories in two Olympic events the previous day.
I suppose it is possible that I was the victim of a prank. But Bush administration officials have just admitted that the war on drugs has been a failure in the streets of Washington. Perhaps it has failed in the corridors of power as well.
A computer virus is a tiny program introduced to computers either as a prank or vandalism.
A graduate student was engaged in no juvenile prank when he created a "worm" program that paralyzed thousands of computers throughout the nation in 1988, a prosecutor contended this morning.
"Whether it is a prank or not, we must take all the necessary precautions," said a Roman Catholic Church official, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The source of a 13-year-old prank in stained glass at the University of Washington has been uncovered: The architect did it.
"There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that it was a prank that went awry," he said.
"At first, it seemed like a harmless prank," Gaulding said Sunday. "I had no idea who did it.
Nor have the Soviet people received any official word of the world-wide reaction of laughter over the bold teenager's apparent prank and concern over his fate.
Police were called in, but by the time they arrived the musicians had left the Coliseum and no one could prove who had pulled the prank, Idol's publicist Rick Scott said.
Beta Theta Pi members have said the incident was a traditional fraternity prank that got out of hand.
It was not a victimless prank." Mr. Lerach vows he'll "fight forever" against the proposed settlement.
"For anyone who thinks this is just a prank, the indictments in New Mexico ought to serve as a stern warning," says former IRS Commissioner Gibbs.
"Frankly, we first thought it might be the inmates" up to a prank, said corrections spokesman Mike Van Winkle. "If I still didn't know anything about it, I would think it was definitely a Snoopy," he said.
A 17-year-old Briton on a family holiday trip told police his attempted hijacking of a Britannia Airways jet was a 'prank'.
"The quiz was a terrible prank and done in extremely poor taste," MacKenzie said. "It was insulting.
As alarming as this might have been in the U.S., the possibility of being attacked "was so far out of my mind, I truly thought it was a game," like switch-the-driver or some other schoolboy prank, says Mr. Jackson.
After the prank on April 12, it faced west.
It had been blown out and refilled with melted chocolate. Although it was a harmless, sheep-in-wolf's-clothing type of prank, it was the sort of surprise I prefer to live without.
Now, we suppose that replacing a Republican subcommittee member with a Socialist would be thought of as little more than a fraternity prank by a party that has been in power for 36 straight years.
Three years ago, Mr. Bornemann wrote similar prank letters to some 200 prominent European political, show-business and literary personalities and then published their responses in a book.
Investigators said the couple placed a commercial laxative in a cake at a company party in May 1987 as a prank.

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