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UK
/dʒˈeɪp/
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NOUN
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a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest
he told a very funny joke
he knows a million gags
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
thanks for the laugh
How To Use jape In A Sentence
- Maria began to laugh jovially, as though this was all just a jape.
- If by this point you are not already delirious, fear not, even more jolly japes and lunacy are to follow.
- And God wol nat be gyled, quoth Gobelyn, ne be _japed_. Notes and Queries, Number 16, February 16, 1850
- When he was exhausted he sat up; and they told stories and japed, till they were breathed enough to get up and dance. Seven Pillars of Wisdom
- Having previously tried various shades of sexism, anti-environmentalism, liberal-baiting which, to be fair, works, and must be extremely satisfying and other offensive/hilarious topics too numerous and tedious to mention, the team this week settled on "xenophobic japery" as the hue du jour. This Week: Lord Wei, Craig Oliver, Richard Hammond
- Mathews concocts burlesques and parodies of such rare excellence as to put one in mind of the broad literary japery of Terry Southern at his most inspired.
- Cambridge Union Society's pole-dancing jape is just plain daft. Actually, you won't find female empowerment halfway up a pole
- Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad. World Of Lather
- They were always in the corner together giggling and plotting japes. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
- Jape Devon stepped out of his Warbird as the rasping engines shut down.
