noun. Good-humored, playful, or teasing conversation.

intransitive verb. To engage in banter.

intransitive verb. To speak to in a playful or teasing way.

To address good-humored raillery to; attack with jokes or jests; make fun of; rally.

To impose upon or cheat, originally in a jesting or bantering way; bamboozle.

To challenge; invite to a contest.

noun. A joking or jesting; good-humored ridicule or raillery; wit or humor; pleasantry.

noun. A challenge to a match or contest; the match or contest itself.

transitive verb. To address playful good-natured ridicule to, -- the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally.

transitive verb. To jest about; to ridicule in speaking of, as some trait, habit, characteristic, and the like.

transitive verb. To delude or trick, -- esp. by way of jest.

transitive verb. To challenge or defy to a match.

noun. The act of bantering; joking or jesting; humorous or good-humored raillery; pleasantry.

noun. Good humoured, playful, typically spontaneous conversation.

verb. To engage in banter or playful conversation.

verb. To play or do something amusing.

verb. To tease mildly.

verb. be silly or tease one another

noun. light teasing repartee

"The combo of Adam Scott (previously), Ken Marino, Ryan Hansen, Lizzy Caplan, and Martin Starr positively slays me, and the banter is as weird and amazing as anything on 30 Rock."

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