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noun

as in joke

something said or done to cause laughter by the standards of today's no-holds-barred satire, Will Rogers' homespun japes about politicians seem awfully gentle

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verb

ˈjāp

as in to joke

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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What follows is a Die Hard–style jape that, spoiler, ends in the entire Lonely Island being shot and killed. —Marianne Eloise, Vulture, 11 Dec. 2024 The curators know who the target audience is: people who still get a kick out of decades-old barf japes. —Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024

This one happens to run on digital blood spatter, bootleg CGI and japes about genitalia, but the animus behind these films is nostalgia for the kind of pounding marquee movies of the 1980s and ‘90s, when the men were muscly and the misogyny was cool with everyone. —Katie Walsh, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2023 But as the capital merry-go-round spun its peccadilloes, scandals and ballyhooed promises, his jaunty baritone restored order with bipartisan japes and irreverent songs to deflate the preening ego and the Big Idea. Presidents from Eisenhower to Trump caught the flak. —Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 30 Mar. 2023 Characterizing universes in which this kind of informaiotn transmission can take place might be a useful jape for astrobiologists with time on their hands. —The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Feb. 2023 Director Aaron Posner’s organizing notion proves far better suited to a short skit than a full 150 minutes of expository twists — and antiquated japes. —Peter Marks, Washington Post, 22 Jan. 2020 The coffee table part is a funny jape about the design’s similarity to a piece of midcentury furniture, an undulating shape raised on legs; but the kunsthalle part is more telling. —Christopher Knight, latimes.com, 9 July 2019 Local guffaw nuts can hit up the annual jape show that is the Orlando Comedy Festival (6 p.m. Friday, 5 p.m. Saturday, Hilton Garden Inn at SeaWorld, 6850 Westwood Blvd. in Orlando, $20-$35, orlandocomedyfestival.com). —Trevor Fraser, orlandosentinel.com, 19 June 2019

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He is reported to have participated in a pestilential online gun culture, replete with tasteless japing about mass shootings. —wsj.com, 12 May 2023

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Meanwhile, Corden, as the event’s emcee, made some uncomfortable jokes about the Dow dropping 2200 points last Friday.

— Martha Ross, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2025
After Wil Trapp scored a rare goal in Minnesota United’s 2-1 win over New York City on Sunday — and the midfielder did so from outside the 18-yard box — Michael Boxall had jokes ready for his teammate and friend in the visiting locker room at Yankee Stadium.

— Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 6 Apr. 2025