what does jape mean?
JAPE as NOUN
- Meaning
- a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter
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- he told a very funny joke
- he knows a million gags
- thanks for the laugh
- he laughed unpleasantly at hisown jest
- even a schoolboy’’s jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point
Hypernyms(s) jape is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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