(n.) Something said for the sake of exciting a laugh; something witty or sportive (commonly indicating more of hilarity or humor than jest); a jest; a witticism; as, to crack good-natured jokes.
(n.) Something not said seriously, or not actually meant; something done in sport.
(v. t.) To make merry with; to make jokes upon; to rally; to banter; as, to joke a comrade.
(v. i.) To do something for sport, or as a joke; to be merry in words or actions; to jest.
Example Sentences:
(1) In platform shoes to emulate Johnson's height, and with the aid of prosthetic earlobes, Cranston becomes the 36th president: he bullies and cajoles, flatters and snarls and barks, tells dirty jokes or glows with idealism as required, and delivers the famous "Johnson treatment" to everyone from Martin Luther King to the racist Alabama governor George Wallace.
(2) "The sending off was a joke, and I thought the penalty was even worse," Bruce said.
(3) Fringe 2009 also welcomes back Aussie standup Jim Jeffries , whose jokes include: "Women to me are like public toilets.
(4) Greek officials categorically denied the report with many describing it as a "joke".
(5) Two years later, Trump tweeted that “Obama’s motto” was: “If I don’t go on taxpayer funded vacations & constantly fundraise then the terrorists win.” The joke, it turns out, is on Trump.
(6) It’s gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, social background, and – most important of all, as far as I’m concerned – diversity of thought.” Diversity needs action beyond the Oscars | Letters Read more He may have provided the Richard Littlejohn wishlist from hell – you know the one, about the one-legged black lesbian in a hijab favoured by the politically correct – but as a Hollywood A-lister, the joke’s no longer on him.
(7) When we arrived, he would instruct us to spend the morning composing a song or a poem, or inventing a joke or a charade.
(8) Having long been accustomed to being the butt of other politicians' jokes, however, Farage is relishing what may yet become the last laugh.
(9) Quizzed by one journalist, Gabrielli joked that "the first 12 hours are the most dangerous".
(10) I think the “horror and outrage” Roberts complains of were more like hilarity, and the story still makes me laugh (as do many others on Mumsnet, which is full of jokes as well as acronyms for everything).
(11) Musk revealed his love for Kerbal Space Program in a Q&A in Reddit , joking (or maybe not?)
(12) One of the punters came up to me after and said that I seemed confident, but he’d spent the whole time wondering when I was going to tell a joke.
(13) In a recent episode of the BBC Radio 4 comedy Alun Cochrane's Fun House , Cochrane joked of how he sleeps better in the living room.
(14) I’m just going to prepare myself for next year, for the Olympics and come out even stronger.” Questioned over Bolt’s joking accusation, Gatlin added: “I want my money back.
(15) Intricate is the key word, as screwball dialogue plays off layered wordplay, recurring jokes and referential callbacks to build to the sort of laughs that hit you twice: an initial belly laugh followed, a few minutes later, by the crafty laugh of recognition.
(16) His art knows this and tries to deal with it by way of jokes and excess.
(17) James Cleverly, MP for Braintree, who supported Johnson’s aborted leadership bid before backing May, said joking about him risked undermining the foreign secretary.
(18) It would also be likely to lend scope to ill-conceived prosecutions jeopardising ordinary free speech rights, such as the notorious Twitter Joke Trial .
(19) This, Brown jokes, counts as good weather for Scotland.
(20) December 3, 2013 And fellow presenters took the opportunity for some jokes at his expense.
Juke
Definition:
(v. i.) To bend the neck; to bow or duck the head.
(n.) The neck of a bird.
(v. i.) To perch on anything, as birds do.
Example Sentences:
(1) A play later McCoy jukes all of us out of the room, moving through the middle of the Dallas D for 17 yards.
(2) The results are in accordance with those from the simulation study, showing that Jukes and Cantor's model is as useful as a more complicated one for making inferences about molecular phylogeny of the viruses.
(3) The ML tree estimation based on Jukes and Cantor's model is also revealed to be resistant to GC content, but rather sensitive to the ratio of transitions to transversions.
(4) While they see the parallels with Serial, Jukes argues “I feel more like I’m a modern historian than an investigator.” Years after the murder, Southern Investigations would become the “cradle of the dark arts”, as Guardian journalist Nick Davies has described them.
(5) Last year, the plant hit a production record when 480,000 vehicles rolled out of the facility, where the Qashqai, Juke and Note brands are made.
(6) This steelworks is Britain’s biggest, accounting for about one third of the country’s total annual production: every Heinz food tin sold in the UK, every roof for the Nissan Juke car and every new 1p and 2p coin (plated in copper) is made from Port Talbot steel.
(7) It’s a story about the biggest cover-up in the history of British police, and how they got away with it.” Jukes is talking about his new podcast Untold, which probes the brutal murder of private eye Daniel Morgan in the car park of a south London pub in 1987 – and the three decades of intrigue that followed it.
(8) The values of the mean relative probabilities of transversions and transitions have been refined on the basis of the data collected by Jukes and found to be equal to 0.34 and 0.66, respectively.
(9) In episode six, there will be a shocking connection between Morgan’s murder and another, more recent violent death after which “the picture will become much clearer,” says Jukes.
(10) Application of Jukes-Cantor correction to singlet mismatch counts worsened the results.
(11) It was only a minor hit, but Black’s loud, infectious laugh when she appeared as the mystery guest on Juke Box Jury impressed reviewers, a sign of things to come.
(12) It was a natural progression when he took over Juke Box Jury, chairing a celebrity panel as they assessed likely chart hits – hailed with a hotel reception bell – or misses – dismissed with a hooter.
(13) 6, 301-316) turn out in the Jukes-Cantor case to be simple tests of symmetry of the substitution model, and not phylogenetic invariants.
(14) Every Heinz food tin sold in the UK, every roof for the Nissan Juke car and every new 1p and 2p coin was made from Port Talbot steel (with the coins plated in copper).
(15) He is convinced that “we’re only scratching the surface,” and has shared his full findings about the case with Jukes.
(16) It’s like Gladiator – Alastair now has the people on his side.” Met police hindered inquiry into private eye’s death, says victim’s brother Read more Until three years ago, Jukes had not heard of the case.
(17) It’s not so much about getting the case reopened,” says Jukes.
(18) In the test a Nissan-Juke owning 40-year-old data analyst living in Gloucestershire with a full no-claims bonus was initially quoted £202.98.
(19) Other major early nutrition scientists in California included Ruth Okey, H. M. Evans, H. S. Olcott, S. Lepkovsky, H. J. Almquist, T. H. Jukes, and E. L. R. Stokstad.
(20) The relation suggested by Hey, Lloyd, Cunningham, Jukes & Bolton (1966) over range 2 was not confirmed.5.