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'play a prank' is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to mean engaging in some form of mischievous activity, either as a joke or as a way of embarrassing someone. Example sentence: My brother always tries to play a prank on me on April Fool's Day.
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Supposedly, years ago, Moby and his friends would play a prank at parties.
He cracks fart jokes with Karl Rove and conspires to play a prank on the current Federal Reserve chairman.
The prosecution and defense teams stated their cases earlier this week in voluminous filings about the December incident, in which Arenas says he took four unloaded guns to the Verizon Center locker room to play a prank on a teammate.
Arenas, the suspended Washington Wizards guard, told Esquire magazine that he was not using "longevity thinking" when he took out four guns in what he says was an attempt to play a prank on a teammate, Javaris Crittenton, in December.
Police officers in Mooroopna, northern Victoria, said the man was trying to play a prank on his partner by hiding in the top-loading appliance when he found he was unable to get out.
She recalled how, on a trip to Washington in 1965 to perform for President Lyndon B. Johnson's inauguration, they decided to play a prank on Mike Nichols but ended up startling the first lady, Lady Bird Johnson.
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"He thought that kids were playing a prank".
"I thought it was somebody playing a prank.
Mr. Horse said his immediate thought was, "Somebody's playing a prank on me".
She thought her staff was playing a prank on their newly arrived boss.
It could just be a bug, or a graduate student playing a prank," Werthimer said.
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