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verb-intransitive. To joke or quip.

v. To make sport of.

n. A joke or quip.

v. To jest; play tricks; joke; jeer.

v. To mock; deride; gibe; trick; befool.

n. a joke

verb-intransitive. To jest; to play tricks; to jeer.

v. To mock; to trick.

To jest; joke.

To deride; gibe; mock; befool.

n. A joke; jest; gibe.

n. A trick; wile; cheat.

n. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

""We don’t want to criminalise a group of students, but at the same time we don’t want to treat the problem as some kind of jape, either.""

japed    japes    japing   

wittiness    humour    wit    humor    witticism   

to make one a jape   

dirty joke    scream    ethnic joke    blue story    visual joke    in-joke    funny remark    funny    one-liner    good story   

jest    jeer    mock    trick    caper    joke   

arty-farty    mudhole    parodist    musquito    criticise    persiflage    bonhommie    pipe-dream    nullifier    byplay