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joke (with someone) (about someone or something)

to quip with someone about someone or something; to make verbal fun with someone about someone or something. I was joking with Tom about the performance. I joked about Andy with Fran.

joke

tv. to tease someone; to make fun of someone. Everybody was joking my roommate because of her accent.

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The reason for the offense is different in this case, however: The benign bureaucrat's joking is resented because he or she is not respected as a productive member of the group.

The engineers let her know--to her face--that they do not like her constant joking about them.

Solid citizens enjoy special joking privileges; they can joke about group members, even in their presence, without offending anyone.

Everyone feels comfortable joking with Carla, and, being a typical solid citizen, she can take a joke.

The other group members recognize that the novice is powerless and nonthreatening, and they freely inlcude him or her in the pattern of joking relationships.

Members of the diverse groups participating in this study understood the importance of joking on the job.

Our data suggest that studying joking behavior is an important way of viewing other aspects of group interaction, such as friendship and leadership patterns.

The fact that Bob, the arrogant executive, is excluded from joking on the job tells us that his subordinates feel isolated from their boss.