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

Consider the picture well and truly painted of a man who can’t quite reconcile his new clean godly lifestyle with his innate need to jape.

From The Guardian • Apr. 4, 2019

In any case, this gory, frenetic jape is less interested in quibbling over semantics than in signaling its own insouciant self-awareness.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 12, 2018

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