Practical jokes
act meant to produce humor by causing annoyance, alarm, confusion, discomfort, or embarrassment, but no lasting harm
A practical joke also called a prank is a trick used to embarrass or confuse someone as a joke. Practical jokes are extremely common on April Fools' Day.
List of practical joke topics
changeSome common pranks include
- Egging, throwing eggs at people or property
- Pantsing, pulling down a person’s trousers or underwear
- Giving people itching powder, which is a powder that makes people need to scratch
- Kick Me note, putting a sign saying “kick me” on someone’s back so that people will kick them
- Milkshaking, throwing milkshakes at people
- Mooning, when a person takes off their pants and underwear and make other people look at their buttocks
- Panty raid, stealing women’s underwear
- Pieing, throwing pies into people’s faces
- Toilet Papering, covering a building with toilet paper
- Wedgie, grabbing onto someone’s underpants and pulling at them
- Wet willy, when a person puts their finger in their mouth and then in someone else’s ear
