Usually means: Causing trouble with playful intent.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word mischief:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. mischief: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. mischief: Merriam-Webster
  3. mischief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. mischief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. mischief: Collins English Dictionary
  6. mischief: Vocabulary.com
  7. Mischief, mischief: Wordnik
  8. mischief: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. mischief: Wiktionary
  10. mischief: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. mischief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. mischief: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Mischief, mischief: Dictionary.com
  14. mischief: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Mischief (disambiguation), Mischief (yacht), Mischief: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Mischief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. mischief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. mischief: Rhymezone
  19. mischief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. mischief: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. mischief: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. mischief: FreeDictionary.org
  23. mischief: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. mischief: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. mischief: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. mischief: Online Etymology Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. mischief: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mischief: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mischief: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. mischief, mischief: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See mischiefs as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) Conduct that playfully causes petty annoyance.
noun:  (countable) A playfully annoying action.
noun:  (collective) A group or a pack of rats.
noun:  (archaic) Harm or injury:
noun:  (uncountable) Harm or trouble caused by an agent or brought about by a particular cause.
noun:  (countable) An injury or an instance of harm or trouble caused by a person or other agent or cause.
noun:  (law) A criminal offence defined in various ways in various jurisdictions, sometimes including causing damage to another's property.
noun:  (archaic, countable) A cause or agent of annoyance, harm or injury, especially a person who causes mischief.
noun:  (euphemistic) The Devil; used as an expletive.
noun:  (Australia) Casual and/or flirtatious sexual acts.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To do a mischief to; to harm.
verb:  (transitive, obsolete) To slander.

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