In other words:
The art of telling a joke with a straight face. (we have all done it before)
One way of memorizing this term is,
for someone to keep a serious face they might bite their tongue as if it were in the cheek to hinder laughter.
One personal example of a tongue in cheek moment is that I was recently watching this video on funny or die about this fake Herman Cain Sexual Harassment Ad and my dad was looking at it from a distance and asked "Is this an actual ad" and i told him "Yes" like it was no big deal, but then he caught on because of how serious my face was. (deadpan humor)
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I had no idea what this word meant, and this actually helped me a lot! Thanks!!
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