to joke
476
1.0
- verb
- /dʒoʊk/
:
bromear
- "He loves to joke with his friends during lunch breaks to lighten the mood."
- laugh and joke
- joke around
- talk and joke
So that's when I started to joke with them about that.
- So that's when I started to joke with them about that.
- Oh my God, are you joking me right now?
- What the hell like are you joking me Tom?
- This is sometimes we joke that in this class we ruin food.
- That's why we always joke that our marriage works so well.
- Lads, Lads, I'm not even joking, it's my right hand.
- And Cassian immediately is like, we don't joke about swords, OK?
- He corrects some instrumentalist, he cajoles them, he jokes, he is angry.
- The prisoners all in grey sweatshirts, blue jeans, joked I looked like them fit in.
- Stop snoozing, scrolling, drinking, smoking, joking, toking, Netflixing, all that stuff.
Examples
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"We seem to have an immediate sense of rapport," he joked, establishing our Jewish connection.
Fiction book (1990) -
So that's when I started to joke with them about that.
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Oh my God, are you joking me right now?
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OK, so when they said glow, they were not joking at all.
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And I'm not joking with that face.
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Are you joking, it's absolutely freezing in here.
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She said how could you joke at a time like this?
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I have also noticed that the boys seem to be joking with Samantha more than usual.
Academic text (2011) -
I was just joking.
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Dougal himself was in high spirits, and chatted and joked pleasantly as we went along.
Fiction book (1991)
Synonyms
∞
3.5
To tease someone in a friendly, playful way
252
1.0
Cause someone to feel amused by saying or doing something funny
80
2.9
Say something funny, often unkind, about someone or something
40
2.4
To say funny things and behave in a playful way to make people laugh
13
1.6
Enjoy something funny and laugh with others
11
5.7
To say or do something as a joke to make people laugh
10
2.9
Tell a joke to make people laugh
1
4.5
To joke in a light, playful way
Idioms
- Informal
1
7.2
A person who tries to embarrass others ends up embarrassed themselves
Phrasal Verbs
Compounds
- Offensive
1
8.9
A joke that makes fun of a group's race or culture and can offend people
- Informal
A simple joke using a pun that fathers often tell and makes people groan
- Informal
A joke that treats serious or painful subjects as funny and may upset some people
How Funny
Surface Forms
Etymology
Joke comes from the Latin jocus 'jest' or 'fun', so to joke is to say or do something in a playful way to make people laugh.