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pull someone's leg

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subject to a playful hoax or joke

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Variants

synonym
hoax
pasttense
pulled someone's leg
presentparticiple
pulling someone's leg
thirdpersonsingular
pulls someone's leg
pastparticiple
pulled someone's leg

Framework definitions

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subject to a playful hoax or joke

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