Usually means: Playful trick or mischievous act.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word antic:

General (22 matching dictionaries)
  1. antic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. antic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. antic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. antic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. antic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Antic, antic: Wordnik
  7. antic: Wiktionary
  8. antic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. antic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. antic: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Antic, antic: Dictionary.com
  12. antic: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ANTIC (magazine), ANTIC, Antic (magazine), Antic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Antic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. antic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. antic: Rhymezone
  17. Antic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. antic: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. antic: Free Dictionary
  20. antic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. antic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. antic: Merriam-Webster.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antic: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ANTIC: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. antic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See antically as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (antic)

adjective:  Playful, funny, absurd.
adjective:  (architecture, art) Grotesque, incongruous.
adjective:  (archaic) Grotesque, bizarre
noun:  (architecture, art, obsolete) A grotesque representation of a figure; a gargoyle.
noun:  A caricature.
noun:  (often in the plural) A ludicrous gesture or act; ridiculous behaviour; caper.
noun:  A grotesque performer or clown, buffoon.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform antics, to caper.
verb:  (obsolete) To make a fool of, to cause to look ridiculous.
verb:  (transitive, rare) To perform (an action) as an antic; to mimic ridiculously.
noun:  (animation) A pose, often exaggerated, in anticipation of an action; for example, a brief squat before jumping
adjective:  Obsolete form of antique. [Having existed in ancient times, descended from antiquity; used especially in reference to Greece and Rome.]

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