Tease a sibling with good-natured jokes to do me, smoke me on a pit for a backyard barbecue, or count me guarding the heart inside a rattling skeleton. What am I?
A rib
'To rib' someone means to tease them playfully, ribs are cut of meat, and ribs compose a skeleton's cage.
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