jape

Example Sentences

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McDonald and Jim Youngren came up with the billboard as a jape on the prevailing national image of Seattle in the wake of the Boeing bust.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2021

Yes, there is a jape about polyphasic sleep.

From The Verge • Feb. 26, 2020

How much of it are we meant to read as thinly veiled auto-critique versus a wickedly funny jape?

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2018

Morkel initially claims he touched it, so thus umpire Tucker goes upstairs for the run-out, but then the big bowler reveals he was joking - a jape!

From The Guardian • Jan. 15, 2016

The sound of it always left him with the uneasy feeling that he was the butt of some jape he did not understand.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin