Übersetzung für 'practical joke' von Englisch nach Deutsch

(practical) joke

Jux {m} [ugs.]

Jokus {m} [ugs.]

practical joke

Ulk {m}

Scherz {m}

Streich {m}

Schabernack {m}

Narrenstreich {m}

Dummejungenstreich {m}

Spaß {m} [lustiger Streich]

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practical joke device

Scherzartikel {m}

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to play a practical joke on sb.

jdm. einen Streich spielen

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joke

Spaß {m} [Scherz, Witz]

Joke {m} [ugs.]

Scherz {m}

Witz {m}

Spass {m} [österr.] [schweiz.] [Scherz, Witz]

to joke

scherzen

Witze machen

jökeln [regional] [spaßen, scherzen]

juxen [ugs.]

practical {adj}

zweckmäßig

angewandt

praktisch umsetzbar

praktisch durchführbar

praxisnah

praktikabel

pragmatisch

praxistauglich

anwendungs­orientiert

praktisch

geeignet

• As officials and fans believed he had won the race, Lorz played along with his practical joke until he was found out shortly before the medal ceremony.
• Mild electric shocks are also used for entertainment, especially as a practical joke for example in such devices as a shocking pen or a shocking gum.
• A local legend claims that the caves are haunted by Sukie, a young maid who was accidentally killed by people playing a practical joke on her.
• A snipe hunt is a type of practical joke or fool's errand, in existence in North America as early as the 1840s, in which an unsuspecting newcomer is duped into trying to catch an elusive (fictitious for the purposes of the prank), nonexistent animal called a "snipe".
• For example, lying to someone or not informing them it will rain is considered a practical joke (called "splinking") on Ork.

• Thipps's flat is near a teaching hospital, and Wimsey considers the possibility that the unexpected appearance of a body may have been the result of a practical joke perpetrated by one of the medical students.
• "I, Libertine" is a historical fiction novel that began as a practical joke by late-night radio raconteur Jean Shepherd who aimed to lampoon the process of determining best-selling books.
• Cerebral serial comedy host Stuart Mclean on the CBC Radio mentioned the band as the butt of a practical joke played by central character Dave in an episode of the Vinyl Cafe.
• Historian Charles Oman records that the choice of Valençay was a practical joke by Napoleon on his former foreign minister Talleyrand, the owner of the château, for his lack of interest in Spanish affairs.
• Believing that a practical joke is being played on him, he wishes that she will stay with him forever, and his wish is granted.

• The practical joke came as a result of Van Buren's vetoing a bill from Congress to improve the highway, a move which angered Western settlers.
• He had a brother called Asinius Marrucinus, whom Catullus calls out for his tasteless practical joke, whose name suggests a family origin among the Marrucini.
• He probably did so as a practical joke on the postal service, since the image is a caricature of workers in the post office.
• Nielsen was a practical joker, and known for pranking people with a portable hand-controlled fart machine. His epitaph reads "Let 'er rip", a final reference to his favourite practical joke.
• A hoax is often intended as a practical joke or to cause embarrassment, or to provoke social or political change by raising people's awareness of something.

• Falke enters with all the guests from the party and explains that the whole thing was payback for Eisenstein's practical joke on him three years before.
• In April 2008, BBC Radio 4 broadcast a play by Chris Harrald entitled "Mr Larkin's Awkward Day", recounting the practical joke played on him in 1957 by his friend Robert Conquest, a fellow poet.
• Nevertheless, Derrida concluded that Sokal was not serious in his method, but had used the spectacle of a "quick practical joke" to displace the scholarship Derrida believed the public deserved.