0 past simple and past participle of joke --
1 to say funny things: --
She wasn't joking (= she was serious) when she said she was going to move out of the house.
I thought he was joking when he said Helen was pregnant, but she really is.
[ + speech ] "I didn't expect to be out so soon", he joked, after spending nine months in hospital.
It's more serious than you think, so please don't joke about it.
What is being joked about to-day?
He joked that it was the punch he gave his ex-wife.
He even joked—ha, ha—afterwards that he would be prepared to pay those councillors more generous expenses.
When he was told that he would get a bodyguard, he joked about it to friends and to his wife.
You will remember something about which we have joked privately since your first election.
One man joked that he had deliberately put a dirty vehicle on to the testing pit to give me a true baptism.
One regular client joked that before a burglary he always took a bath so that he could make a clean getaway.
Rocha was his ' best campaign chief, ' he joked.
