leg-pull

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

leg-pull
    n 1: as a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that
         is not true [syn: {leg-pull}, {leg-pulling}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

leg-pull \leg-pull\ n.
   An attempt to make somebody believe something that is not
   true, done as a joke.

   Syn: leg-pulling.
        [WordNet 1.5]

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