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practical joker

noun

practical joker

noun

Etymology From practical joke + -er.

1

Someone who instigates practical jokes; a prankster.

  • Some of his allies miss the old Zelensky, the practical joker with the boyish smile. But they realize he needs to be different now, much harder and deaf to distractions, or else his country might not survive.December 7 2022, Simon Shuster, “2022 Person of the Year: Volodymyr Zelensky”, in Time, archived from the original on 04 Jan 2023:

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