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[ noun ] light teasing repartee

Used in print

(Robert Penn Warren, Wilderness....)

He had had the need to understand what life lurked behind the mask of flesh , behind the oath , the banter , the sadness .

Once covertly looking at Simms_Purdew , the only man in the world whom he hated , he had seen the heavy , slack , bestubbled jaw open and close to emit the cruel , obscene banter , and had seen the pale blue eyes go watery with whisky and merriment , and suddenly he was not seeing the face of that vile creature .

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[ verb ] be silly or tease one another

Synonyms

kid chaff josh jolly

Examples

"After we relaxed, we just kidded around"

Used in print

(Leo Lemon, "Catch Up With" and "Something to...)

For_example , probably very few people know that the word `` visrhanik '' that is bantered about so much today stems from the verb `` bouanahsha '' : to salivate .

Related terms

tease

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