"half joke" meaning in English

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          "ref": "2003, Suad Amiry, Earthquake in April, page 198",
          "text": "\"Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out.\"\n\"Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it,\" I say, another half-joke.",
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        "A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness."
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        "(idiomatic) A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness."
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Richard Doetsch, Half-Past Dawn, page 278",
          "text": "\"You know why I think you're working with Cristos? Because once I was captured, once he got what he wanted, it would be far easier to pin it all on me, to kill my wife, dump her body where it would never be found, convince me and the world that I was crazy, no trial, just lock me up in a padded room until I succumbed to the cancer.\"\n\"That sounds like a pretty good plan,\" Frank said, half joking.",
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        "To make a half joke."
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        "(idiomatic) To make a half joke."
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          "word": "half-joke"
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  "word": "half joke"
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          "ref": "2003, Suad Amiry, Earthquake in April, page 198",
          "text": "\"Well, let's wait. Perhaps the shooting will die out.\"\n\"Maybe the soldiers and settlers will die out with it,\" I say, another half-joke.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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        "A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness."
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        [
          "jest",
          "jest"
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        "(idiomatic) A statement which contains elements of both jest and seriousness."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-joke"
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  "word": "half joke"
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          "ref": "2011, Richard Doetsch, Half-Past Dawn, page 278",
          "text": "\"You know why I think you're working with Cristos? Because once I was captured, once he got what he wanted, it would be far easier to pin it all on me, to kill my wife, dump her body where it would never be found, convince me and the world that I was crazy, no trial, just lock me up in a padded room until I succumbed to the cancer.\"\n\"That sounds like a pretty good plan,\" Frank said, half joking.",
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        "To make a half joke."
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        "(idiomatic) To make a half joke."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "half-joke"
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