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/pleɪ ə dʒoʊk ɑn/ Listen

Play a joke on

verb

Subject to a playful hoax or joke. Synonyms: hoax, pull someone's leg.

Deceive somebody. Synonyms: flim-flam, fob, fox, play a trick on, play tricks, pull a fast one on, trick.

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"Play a joke on" Quotes from Famous Books

... Uncle Percy said it didn't matter; he had only bought it to play a joke on someone. Mother and Mollie and Geoffrey and Jane and everybody hunted everywhere for it, but they didn't find it. A few days later a letter came from Bessie asking "Geoffrey and Mollie to come to tea with the King ...

— A Big Temptation • L. T. Meade

Words linked to "Play a joke on" : delude, snooker, cozen, deceive, lead on