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What (who) is jape - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Japes; JAPE; Jape (disambiguation)
jape
(japes)
A jape is a silly trick that you play on someone which is quite funny and which does not really involve upsetting them. (OLD-FASHIONED)
= prank
N-COUNT
jape
¦ noun a practical joke.
¦ verb say or do something in jest or mockery.
Derivatives
japery noun
Origin
ME: appar. combining the form of OFr. japer 'to yelp, yap' with the sense of OFr. gaber 'to mock'.
Japes
similar to joke
just japesing or you're having a japes
just japesing or you're having a japes
Wikipedia
Jape
Jape is a synonym for a practical joke.
Jape or JAPE may also refer to:
- Jape (band), an Irish electronic/rock band
- JAPE (linguistics), a transformation language widely used in natural language processing
- JAPE, a
n automated pun generator - Jape (software), a Java-based proof assistant
- Java Annotations Pattern Engine – see General Architecture for Text Engineering
Examples of use of jape
1. And watch the hilarity unfold," says Al Warwick, who sounds quite experienced in said jape.
2. I think it was a very unfortunate outcome to a jape that went seriously wrong.
3. Seems to be a lot of envy in the comments. – Steve O‘Dare, Skegness, England What a jolly jape!
4. But all that is assuming you are normal and only faking it as an experiment or for a jape.
5. Street Wars is clearly a potentially dangerous jape in a city where an electrician trying to use the tube was recently terminated by the anti–terrorist squad.