antics
noun/ˈæntɪks/
/ˈæntɪks/
[plural]- behaviour that is silly and funny in a way that people usually like
- The bank staff got up to all sorts of antics to raise money for charity.
- a comic who performs wacky antics on his TV show
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- amusing
- crazy
- playful
- …
- get up to
- perform
- be amused by
- …
- behaviour which is unreasonable or dangerousTopics Dangerc2
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from antic, from Italian antico ‘antique’, used to mean ‘grotesque’.
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