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jape::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | gag, jest, joke, laugh |
| Type of | wittiness, witticism, humor, wit, humour |
| Has types | ethnic joke, funny, funny remark, funny story, good story, howler, in-joke, one-liner, riot, scream, shaggy dog story, sick joke, sidesplitter, sight gag, belly laugh, blue joke, blue story, dirty joke, dirty story, thigh-slapper, visual joke, wow |
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point.
Examples of jape
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Suffice to say that it's an awfully gassy ride from the first jape to the last.
From the washingtonpost.com
Maybe it was just a friendly jape after all, Ms. Tomlin was in a joking mood.
From the washingtontimes.com
I can see how a jape that endures beyond the grave is a diverting idea.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Apparently Lievremont didn't take the jape in the manner it was intended.
From the web.orange.co.uk
That eye wanted to cross, to discredit Perkus Tooth's whole sober aura with a comic jape.
From the online.wsj.com
The moment is wholly unexpected in the midst of an otherwise madcap jape.
From the washingtonpost.com
All of which makes the occult disclaimer feel like a smirking jape.
From the nytimes.com
But Patrick Feaster's rendition of 1,000-year-old audio is no jape.
From the economist.com
Another brand of all-American capitalism, the Mafia, takes its licks in Jonathan Demme's hip jape.
From the time.com
- Joke: a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
- Computational humor is a branch of computational linguistics and artificial intelligence which uses computers in humor research. It is not to be confused with (i.e., jokes about computers, programmers, users, and computing).
- Jape is an Irish electronicu2013rock band from Dublin. Formed as a side project by Richie Egan whilst part of The Redneck Manifesto, they have released five albums to date; Cosmosphere (2003), The Monkeys in the Zoo Have More Fun Than Me (2004), Ritual (2008), Ocean of Frequency (2011), and This Chemical Sea(2015)...
- JAPE is the Java Annotation Patterns Engine, a component of the open-source General Architecture for Text Engineering (GATE) platform. JAPE is a finite state transducer that operates over annotations based on regular expressions. ...
- Jape is a configurable, graphical proof assistant, originally developed at the University of Oxford. It allows user to define a logic, decide how to view proofs, and much more. It works with variants of the sequent calculus and natural deduction.
- A joke; to jest; to play tricks; to jeer; to mock; to trick
- Derogatory WWII Marine slang for Imperial Japanese troops who were thought to be dead but weren't [v: PLAY DEAD], which refers to the necessity of "killing corpses" to ensure their demise, because they were so devious and tenacious; derived by contraction of "Jap + ape". ...
