as in joking
to make jokes
the characters in Oscar Wilde's plays jape with a readiness and sophistication that is rarely, if ever, encountered in real life
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Sanders, who has been at Colorado since 2022 after two seasons at Jackson State University, could be seen in his son’s YouTube video joking around with his family while laying in a hospital bed on Tuesday night.—
Sean Neumann,
PEOPLE,
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The TikTok video garnered numerous comments, with some who missed that Dom was joking and trolling the kid, and others praising him for staying in character.—
Matthew Couden,
MSNBC Newsweek,
8 Oct. 2025
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Jean followed her gaze out the window, to where Wole was bantering with Jean’s brother Sylvester and Jerrald and some of Jerrald’s cousins who’d been staying with them since Katrina, the summer before.—
David Wright Faladé,
New Yorker,
28 Sep. 2025
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“Japing.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/japing. Accessed 16 Oct. 2025.
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