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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Vulgar, lewdly humorous language or joking or an instance of it.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The qualities or acts of a ribald; licentious or foul language; ribald conversation; obscenity; indecency.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Joking or humorous language done in a vulgar or lewd fashion.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. ribald humor
  2. n. behavior or language bordering on indelicacy

Etymologies

  1. Middle English; From ribald. (Wiktionary)

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