"joking" meaning in English

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          "text": "Twenty euros cover charge? You're joking me!",
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        "Kidding, trying to fool."
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          "word": "all joking aside"
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          "text": "No low beatings and knockings about, no jokings and squeakings like your precious Punches, but always the same, with a constantly unchanging air of coldness and gentility[…]",
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        "The act of telling or engaging in jokes."
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