- leg-pull
- nounas a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true• Syn: ↑leg-pulling• Hypernyms: ↑jest, ↑joke, ↑jocularity
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\\ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\ nounEtymology: back-formation from leg-pulling: a deception or hoax usually of a humorous characteralways full of jokes and leg-pulls — David Garnett
the … anecdote near the end of the memoir sounds like a final leg-pull — Hugh Kenner
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—leg-puller, n./leg"pool'/, n.an amusing hoax, practical joke, or the like: The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull.[1910-15]* * *
legˈ-pull nounA good-humoured hoax, bluff or practical joke• • •Main Entry: ↑leg* * *
a joke, or something that you do to try to trick someone in a funny way* * *
leg-pull «LEHG PUL», noun.Informal. an act of fooling, tricking, or ridiculing; hoax; practical joke: »He found it hard to persuade them that his call for help was not another leg-pull (New Scientist).
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n. informal a trick or practical jokeDerivatives:leg-puller n. leg-pulling n.* * *
a joke played on sb, usually by making them believe sth that is not true
Useful english dictionary. 2012.