If you banter with someone, you tease them or joke with them in an amusing, friendly way. The soldiers bantered with him as though he was a kid brother We bantered a bit while I tried to get the car started. friendly conversation in which people make a lot of jokes with and amusing remarks about each other friendly/good-natured/light-hearted banter banter with/between
To address playful good-natured ridicule to, the person addressed, or something pertaining to him, being the subject of the jesting; to rally; as, he bantered me about my credulity