prank call
To call on the telephone as a practical jokeTo call (an unsuspecting person) on the telephone as a practical joke.
» I thought it was a prank call.
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1 sensesTo call (an unsuspecting person) on the telephone as a practical joke.
Examples
16 sentencesI thought it was a prank call.
Tom and Mary were making prank phone calls.
deTom und Maria vollführten Scherzanrufe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
I thought that it was a prank call.
Tom likes to make prank calls.
deTom macht gerne Scherzanrufe. — Pfirsichbaeumchen
It must have been a prank call.
Forms
prank calls, prank calling, prank called, prank called| Base form | prank call · to prank call |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | prank calls |
| Present participle | prank calling |
| Past simple | prank called |
| Past participle | prank called |
regular
Word family
1 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, irregular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle
See also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.