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- verb Present participle of
jape .
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Examples
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Twelve days before the Games began, a pedestrian footbridge collapsed, injuring 23, and brought Delhi's chief minister Sheila Dikshit to prominence and scatalogical japing about her name from Australia threatened a diplomatic incident.
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He had the canny self-assurance of an industry maverick, the outsider who tries to roil the works, japing every complacent rule of belief.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He had the canny self-assurance of an industry maverick, the outsider who tries to roil the works, japing every complacent rule of belief.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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He had the canny self-assurance of an industry maverick, the outsider who tries to roil the works, japing every complacent rule of belief.
Underworld Don Delillo 2008
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When that starving dog finally does what you knew it would, the scene is so over the top that dread shades into laughter -- helped by King's broad japing about doggy dinners.
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I'm going to stop japing for a minute, and bring something to your attention.
About those libraries. Ann Althouse 2007
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I'd assumed, if not hoped, it to be similar to that in which I got my GCSE results: everyone all gathered together in a rather desperate noisy throng, jostling and japing outside in the late August sun, waiting to be let into that section of the school which had been specially opened up to dispense the good and ill tidings, everyone still in a holiday mood, nobody quite taking it seriously.
Archive 2006-08-01 Alistair Myles 2006
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I'd assumed, if not hoped, it to be similar to that in which I got my GCSE results: everyone all gathered together in a rather desperate noisy throng, jostling and japing outside in the late August sun, waiting to be let into that section of the school which had been specially opened up to dispense the good and ill tidings, everyone still in a holiday mood, nobody quite taking it seriously.
Final score Alistair Myles 2006
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His japing, heavy-lidded eyes took Soames in from top to toe.
On Forsyte 'Change 2004
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It gave Soames quite a turn to see that familiar beef-coloured face pale and puffy as a moon, with dark corrugated circles round eyes which still had their japing stare.
The White Monkey 2004
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