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  • 41Play (S.H.E album) — Infobox Album Name = Play Type = Album Artist = S.H.E Released = May 112007 Recorded = Genre = Mandarin pop Length = 43 12 Label = HIM International Music, EMI, WOW Music Producer = S.H.E, David Tao Reviews = Last album = Forever (2006) This… …

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  • 42Joke — 1. something extremely bad, pathetic, awful, dreadful, etc.: Their defensive play is a joke ; 2. hopeless, stupid, useless person: You re nothing but a joke, an absolute joke ; pack of hopeless jokes …

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  • 43joke — Australian Slang 1. something extremely bad, pathetic, awful, dreadful, etc.: Their defensive play is a joke ; 2. hopeless, stupid, useless person: You re nothing but a joke, an absolute joke ; pack of hopeless jokes …

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  • 44…Play Nine Songs with Mr. Quintron — Infobox Album Name = ...Play Nine Songs with Mr. Quintron Type = Studio Album Artist = Oblivians Img capt = The Oblivians ...Play 9 Songs with Mr Quintron album cover Released = 1997 Recorded = January 3, 1997 at Cotton Row Studio Genre = Garage… …

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  • 45play the fool — CLOWN ABOUT/AROUND, fool about/around, mess about/around, lark about/around, monkey about/around, joke; informal horse about/around, act the goat; Brit. informal muck about/around. → play * * * play/act/the fool …

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  • 46joke — [17] Latin jocus meant ‘jest, joke’ (a possible link with Old High German gehan ‘say’ and Sanskrit yācati ‘he implores’ suggests that its underlying meaning was ‘word play’). It passed into Old French as jeu, which lies behind English jeopardy… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 47joke — [17] Latin jocus meant ‘jest, joke’ (a possible link with Old High German gehan ‘say’ and Sanskrit yācati ‘he implores’ suggests that its underlying meaning was ‘word play’). It passed into Old French as jeu, which lies behind English jeopardy… …

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  • 48play on words — Synonyms and related words: abuse of terms, acrostic, amphibologism, amphiboly, anagram, be merry with, calembour, corruption, crack a joke, crack wise, equivocality, equivoque, fleer at, fun, gibe at, jape, jest, jeu de mots, joke, josh, kid,… …

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  • 49play along — verb To take part in a charade, deception, or practical joke James thought it was cruel for the fraternity members to make the pledge think his father had died suddenly and refused to play along …

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  • 50play the fool — by the time she was ten, Ronnie knew it was her God given job to play the fool Syn: clown around, fool around, mess around, monkey around, joke; informal horse around …

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