banter

/ˈbantə/noun

Light, good-natured teasing traded back and forth between people.

Example sentence

“There was plenty of banter between the players in the locker room.”

Good-natured by definition: if the teasing stings, it has stopped being banter. "Witty banter" is the standard pairing.

Featured as word of the day on July 13, 2026.

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