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1.                 From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
                   
   
   
                   
                     
   jape
       n 1: a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter;
            "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" [syn: joke, gag, laugh, jest,
            jape]