Definition of "japing" []

• Present participle of jape. (verb)

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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."
• "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."
• "He had the canny self-assurance of an industry maverick, the outsider who tries to roil the works, japing every complacent rule of belief."