jape

1. A humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter (synset 106790941)
   "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
   is a type of: humor, humour, wit, witticism, wittiness - a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
   subtypes:

   • 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)
   has: gag line, laugh line, punch line, tag line - the point of a joke or humorous story
   same as: gag, jest, joke, laugh

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