Usually means: Humorous remarks or acts; jokes.
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  1. jests: Merriam-Webster
  2. jests: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jests: Vocabulary.com
  4. Jests, jest's, jests: Wordnik
  5. jests: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. jests: Wiktionary
  7. jests: Dictionary.com
  8. jests: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. jests: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jests: Legal dictionary

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  1. jests: Idioms

(Note: See jest as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jest)

noun:  (archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
noun:  (archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
noun:  (obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
noun:  (obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
verb:  To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
adverb:  (African-American Vernacular, Southern US) Alternative spelling of just [Only, simply, merely.]
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