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A badge for fooling around? (8)

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badinage

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'fooling around?' is the definition.
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(Other definitions for badinage that I've seen before include "Drollery" , "Backchat, banter" , "Beg Diana with good-humoured teasing" , "Frivolous repartee" , "Amiable banter" .)

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