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n. - As a joke: trying to make somebody believe something that is not true.

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  • Noun : The entire story was a hilarious leg-pull
  • Afterwards we see the funny side of it and their mishap becomes a standing joke; both have to put up with many a leg-pull.
  • I've been told that senses are sometimes given to concepts at Oxford after the gates close to visitors; but that may be a leg-pull.
  • They had set out to have a jolly good leg-pull and I will tell you what happened.
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