"prank call" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "prank calls",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 April 2, “April Fool Phone Calls Decline Sharply in City”, in New York Times, page 87",
          "text": "Until noon only 251 prank calls to the Bronx Zoo had been sifted out, compared with the day-long total of 3352 on April 1, 1960. The pranksters would call Wellington 3-1500 to talk with a \"Mr. Fox\" (or Lyon, Bear or Wolf).",
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      "glosses": [
        "A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else."
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      "id": "en-prank_call-en-noun-Z1g5jZhi",
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        [
          "practical joke",
          "practical joke"
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        [
          "unsuspecting",
          "unsuspecting"
        ],
        [
          "victim",
          "victim"
        ],
        [
          "telephone",
          "telephone"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "crank call"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "ar",
          "lang": "Arabic",
          "roman": "ittiṣāl maqlab",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "اِتِّصَال مَقْلَب"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "word": "pilapuhelu"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Telefonstreich"
        },
        {
          "alt": "いたずらでんわ",
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "roman": "itazura denwa",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "word": "悪戯電話"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "trote"
        },
        {
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
          "tags": [
            "common-gender"
          ],
          "word": "busringning"
        }
      ]
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  "word": "prank call"
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      "form": "prank calls",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    {
      "form": "prank calling",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
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      "form": "prank called",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "prank called",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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      "expansion": "prank call (third-person singular simple present prank calls, present participle prank calling, simple past and past participle prank called)",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To call (an unsuspecting person) on the telephone as a practical joke."
      ],
      "id": "en-prank_call-en-verb-G49EAXgt",
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "nuisance call"
        }
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  "word": "prank call"
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      "form": "prank calls",
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  "pos": "noun",
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1961 April 2, “April Fool Phone Calls Decline Sharply in City”, in New York Times, page 87",
          "text": "Until noon only 251 prank calls to the Bronx Zoo had been sifted out, compared with the day-long total of 3352 on April 1, 1960. The pranksters would call Wellington 3-1500 to talk with a \"Mr. Fox\" (or Lyon, Bear or Wolf).",
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      ],
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        "A practical joke played by calling the unsuspecting victim on the telephone, usually pretending to be somebody else."
      ],
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        ],
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          "unsuspecting",
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          "telephone",
          "telephone"
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "crank call"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "ar",
      "lang": "Arabic",
      "roman": "ittiṣāl maqlab",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "اِتِّصَال مَقْلَب"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "word": "pilapuhelu"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Telefonstreich"
    },
    {
      "alt": "いたずらでんわ",
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "roman": "itazura denwa",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "word": "悪戯電話"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "trote"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "practical joke made by calling victim on the telephone",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "busringning"
    }
  ],
  "word": "prank call"
}

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      "form": "prank calls",
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "nuisance call"
    }
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  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "To call (an unsuspecting person) on the telephone as a practical joke."
      ]
    }
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  "word": "prank call"
}