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japes

japes is the plural of jape.

japes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of jape.

Meaning of jape

Noun

jape (plural japes)

  1. A joke or quip.
    • [H]e clapped hand to thigh, and laughed and laughed until the air rang again.
      "Oho, a jape—a jape indeed!" he roared.1920, Jeffery Farnol, The Geste of Duke Jocelyn, Fytte 9
    Synonyms:
    joke
  2. A prank or trick.
    • In London or New York in the late 1970s dada meant what it meant in Paris and New York at the end of the First World War: a not-quite-naked prank, a jape clothed in the barest g-string of aesthetic authority, a Bronx cheer in three-part harmony, Tzara's affirmation of the right “to piss and shit in...1989, Greil Marcus, “The Art of Yesterday's Crash”, in Lipstick Traces, Faber & Faber, published 2009

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Words that rhyme with japes

Questions about japes

What is japes the plural of?
Japes is the plural of jape.

Words near japes in the dictionary

  1. Japenis
  2. japer
  3. japeries
  4. japers
  5. japery
  6. japes
  7. japester
  8. japesters
  9. Japetian
  10. Japetus
  11. japeworthy

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