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yukking

verb

variants or yucking

present participle of yuk, slang

as in joking

to make jokes pay no mind to those clowns—they are just yukking it up and don't mean any harm

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joking

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To this day, Ryan still isn’t sure if Hanks was being serious or joking.

— Ashlyn Robinette, PEOPLE, 21 Aug. 2026
The beverage brands Liquid Death and Garage Beer teamed up to create the ad, which features former NFL player Jason Kelce joking about using people’s pee to cool the AI data centers.

— Michael Kan, PC Magazine, 19 Aug. 2026

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