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half joke

noun

Definitions

  1. A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness.

    • "Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out." "Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it," I say, another half-joke.

  2. To make a half joke.

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