A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter.
1This is not some strange jape of Littlefinger's? He sheathed his blade.
2The Sphinx was always smiling, as if he knew some secret jape.
3The French president, Emmanuel Macron, appeared particularly amused by the jape.
4One of the smoking-room humorists mocked his accent and ventured a crude jape.
5I'm only making a jest, madame, a bit of a jape.
6Was it some jape, to make a fool of the stupid hedge knight?
7The poorest have become the victims of a political jape.
8Nothing to him, the crude jape of the professional jester.
9Always they cry, jangle, and jape; that unneth they be still while they sleep.
10Ah, those college kids, they don't half love a jape.
11It had all been a trap, a game, a jape.
12It was the much riskier jape of routinely conflating free speech with hate speech.
13Tesla share price His playful jape sent shares sky-rocketing, only for them to plummet again.
14It's not good to jape of that one, not when we're so near the Rhoyne.
15It's a time-worn jape, but it fitted in admirably.
16So Trip taught me how to jape and tumble.