banter
IPA: bˈæntɝ
noun
- Sharp, good-humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.
verb
- (intransitive) To engage in banter or playful conversation.
- (intransitive) To play or do something amusing.
- (transitive) To tease (someone) mildly.
- (transitive) To joke about; to ridicule (a trait, habit, etc.).
- (transitive) To delude or trick; to play a prank upon.
- (transitive, US, Southern and Western, colloquial) To challenge to a match.
- (UK, dialect) To haggle; cheapen the price.
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Examples of "banter" in Sentences
- They enjoyed exchanging banters.
- I enjoyed our bantering back and forth.
- The podcast is simple banter and general chat.
- He is bantering the terms around far too easily.
- Badinage can also refer to playful repartee, or banter.
- They have a bantering, sweet, yet platonic relationship.
- They waver between bickering and bantering on this journey.
- The Banter Bulldogge is a very good recreation of the breed.
- Much of the banter within the battalion was directed at them.
- A difference is that the banter was not visible to the ultimate readers.
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