prank call
A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually…A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.
» I thought it was a prank call.
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1 sensesA practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else.
Scherzanruf, Telefonstreich
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.
Translations
3 languagesBy meaning 1
Forms
plural: prank calls| Singular | prank call |
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Synonyms
1 synonymsSee also
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