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JAPE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
Example:
even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("jape" is a kind of...):
humor; humour; wit; witticism; wittiness (a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter)
Meronyms (parts of "jape"):
gag line; laugh line; punch line; tag line (the point of a joke or humorous story)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "jape"):
belly laugh; howler; riot; scream; sidesplitter; thigh-slapper; wow (a joke that seems extremely funny)
blue joke; blue story; dirty joke; dirty story (an indelicate joke)
ethnic joke (a joke at the expense of some ethnic group)
funny; funny remark; funny story; good story (an account of an amusing incident (usually with a punch line))
in-joke (a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people)
one-liner (a one-line joke)
shaggy dog story (a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness)
sick joke (a joke in bad taste)
sight gag; visual joke (a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie))
