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Verb: pull the leg of
Usage: informal
  1. Tell false information to for fun
    "The older siblings often pulled the leg of their gullible younger brother";
    - kid [informal]

Derived forms: pulling the leg of, pulls the leg of, pulled the leg of

Type of: befool [archaic], cod [Brit, informal], dupe, fool, gull, put on, put one across [informal], put one over [informal], slang [archaic, informal], take in