0 present 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.
Joking about frailty was also a means of acknowledging the presence of death.
There are many joking references to her in the sessions, although the adolescents knew that she would hear these remarks.
Among the staff, humor and joking together provided a means of negotiating the tension around hierarchical differences.
