variants
or yucking
as in kidding
to make jokes
pay no mind to those clowns—they are just yukking it up and don't mean any harm
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Pat Kelsey wasn't kidding about wanting the smoke.—
Leo Bertucci,
The Courier-Journal,
2 Sep. 2025 -
In 2019, Lebanese depositors discovered that their banking system had, in effect, just been kidding about those savings accounts.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
2 Sep. 2025
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Many users commiserated over the delay, many joking about the United States Postal Service and the mysteries of lost mail.—
Daniella Gray,
MSNBC Newsweek,
24 Sep. 2025
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Reid made light of the incident, joking that Kelce caught him off balance.—
Jesse Newell,
New York Times,
22 Sep. 2025
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Despite initially teasing a retirement from touring back in 2022, the band has decided to reverse course and get their wigs back into fighting shape.—
Devon Ivie,
Vulture,
25 Sep. 2025
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The singer has been busy lately teasing the follow-up to his 2022 sophomore LP, Faith in the Future, telling fans earlier this month that the untitled album is nearly complete.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
24 Sep. 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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“Yukking.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/yukking. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.
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