jape
IPA: dʒˈeɪp
noun
- A joke or quip.
- A prank or trick.
verb
- (intransitive) To jest; play tricks.
- (transitive) To mock; deride.
- (obsolete) To have sexual intercourse with.
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Examples of "jape" in Sentences
- Your jape is not funny at all.
- Jape has only spiritual children.
- I am very sorry for the loose jape.
- Stop playing around, spitting japes.
- That edit summary was a joke or jest, a merry jape
- I apologise, thinking it was a saturday night jape.
- Such little verses always made the best sort of jape.
- She heard the same old stupid japes over and over again.
- Cambridge Union Society's pole-dancing jape is just plain daft.
- This article appears to be a jape, like the websites it describes.
- Richie Egan is the principal songwriter but refers to the overall band as Jape.
- Students in the school kept on throwing japes around in the classroom during the class.
- That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape.
- A little jape on himself, and one that would certainly deliver more concrete rewards than his loftier verse.
- Even Ponting describes the quiet as "appalling" on one of his intertitles, which otherwise often have a jolly-jape feel.
- "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."
- Chef Nikki Billington and her partner Paul Watson had always made running a restaurant feel less like a business venture and more like a jolly jape.
- The Huffington Post noted the references as well as more "jokes" in the same vein (including a video of Cooper's jape, over which David Gergen cluelessly chortles).
- People would halt the progress of whatever parley they were engaged in and turn to stop him in aisles and antechambers, demanding an instant jape or trick from him.
- "I remember when I was a young boy, 1 April fell on a Saturday, so the Football League decided to create a 'hilarious' jape by sending referees and linesmen with thematically linked names to the same game," recalls Robin Tucker.