banter (n.)
- backchat
- badinage
- beard
- blarney
- brave
- buffoonery
- chaff
- challenge
- chitchat
- con
- dare
- derision
- exchange
- face
- flippancy
- fool
- foolery
- fooling
- front
- fun
- give-and-take
- gossip
- grinning
- guy
- harlequinade
- haze
- hissing
- hooting
- horseplay
- jape
- jeering
- jest
- jive
- joke
- jolly
- kid
- levity
- mock
- mockery
- needle
- persiflage
- pleasantry
- quiz
- rag
- ragging
- raillery
- rally
- rallying
- razz
- razzing
- repartee
- rib
- ribbing
- ride
- ridicule
- roast
- roasting
- scoffing
- smartness
- snorting
- taunt
- taunting
- tease
- teasing
- tomfoolery
- twit
- venture
