0 past simple and past participle of joke
1 to say funny things:
It's more serious than you think, so please don't joke about it.
[ + speech ] "I didn't expect to be out so soon", he joked, after spending nine months in hospital.
I thought he was joking when he said Helen was pregnant, but she really is.
She wasn't joking (= she was serious) when she said she was going to move out of the house.
The normally dour Mr James was photographed smiling and joking with friends.
Don't joke about it! It's not funny.
She seems to have joked a good deal about the king and his inadequacies with her closest confidantes.
We eventually joked amongst ourselves asking, what is the morning version, the afternoon version, the evening version?
A colleague joked to me the other day that time-series econometricians have won finance but lost macro.
