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joke English

Meaning joke meaning

What does joke mean?
Definitions in simple English

joke Noun

— If you tell a joke, you say something to make people laugh. Trevor's joke about the boring lexicographer was too funny. — If something is a joke, it is not considered seriously. Don't listen to Joseph. He's a joke. Nobody pays any attention to him.

joke Verb

— When you joke about something, you say something funny that you don't really mean. Everyone joked about how bad his tennis was. I wasn't joking about burning my shoes. Because I have a dog, I joke with my friends about their boring cats. The coach joked that he would fire his whole team. — You say "you must be joking" when somebody tells you something that's very hard to believe. "She's forty three." "Forty three?! You must be joking. She looks like she's sixteen."

joke

— noun (= gag, laugh, jest, jape) a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter he told a very funny joke he knows a million gags thanks for the laugh he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point — verb tell a joke; speak humorously He often jokes even when he appears serious — verb act in a funny or teasing way — noun (= jest) activity characterized by good humor — noun (= antic) a ludicrous or grotesque act done for fun and amusement — noun a triviality not to be taken seriously I regarded his campaign for mayor as a joke

Synonyms joke synonyms

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joke English » English

jest gag banter tease prank laugh trick ridicule kid fun pleasantry jape play wisecrack anecdote witticism sport quip funny story practical joke mock frolic make fun lark kidding joking gambol wit waggery tell a joke teasing put-on make fun of laughter jocularity humour game fool deride crack a joke caper antic amuse trouble taunt rally pun playful threat playful play around

Topics joke topics

What do people use joke to talk about?
Social behavior Social activity

Humor
Social behavior Behavior Honest

Deceive

Conjugation joke conjugation

How do you conjugate joke?

joke · verb

Examples joke examples

How do I use joke in a sentence?

Simple sentences

I meant it as a joke.
He made a joke about it.
Tom laughed at Mary's joke.
Whether a joke is found to be funny depends strongly on the culture.
Have you understood this joke?
That's an old joke.
It is hard to translate a joke into another language.
Tom told me that same joke yesterday.
You went too far in your joke.
It is nothing but a joke.
Bill did nothing else but joke.
It was just a joke.
It's merely a joke.
I just meant it as a joke.
That is the funniest joke that I have ever heard.
It is no joke.
It's nothing but a kind of joke.
It was nothing but a joke.
That joke isn't funny.
I cannot help laughing at the joke.

Movie subtitles

A lie, a joke.
I always joke around.
She just freaked out, and it was just a pure joke.
I think she thinks that I could've been trying to scare her, play a sick joke on her.
I understand how it would work If you were real bandits, But you're a joke.
Everyone thought it was a joke when I said I would donate.
Oh! I just thought of a new joke.
I'm happy this is a joke for you.
That was a joke.
It's just a joke, you wouldn't get it.
It's hard to get pissed when she makes a geography joke.
Then fate - it's always fate - played its little joke, and again the elements laughed, roared and thundered, but through it all our heroes soundly slumbered.
Just a joke.
No joke, either. Eats ya up inside.
I hate a dirty joke, unless it's told by someone who knows how to tell it.
I told him a joke about my mother-in-law.
This silly joke has gone far enough.
You've made me the joke of the plains.
This is an absolute joke.
Well, if the joke is as good as that, I'd like to hear it.
Please don't misunderstand, the whole thing was a joke.
Probably upstairs thinking up that daily joke.
Madame has chosen a funny time for such a funny joke.
To you it's just a joke.
That's not a funny joke.
What is it? Is this a joke?
I haven't used that joke for 20 years.
Explain the joke and I'll die laughing.
No joke, either.
You've been tailing me long enough with that joke suit of yours.
Joke?
I made a joke on her.
YOU KNOW, THE JOKE OF IT IS, I HAVEN'T BEEN ROBBED AT ALL.

News and current affairs

But of course the point of the original joke was that the curate was just being polite: an egg is either good or bad, and his was bad.
The Lisbon Agenda turned out to be a joke.
But the joke wouldn't work if there were not at the same time another widely shared assumption that scientific knowledge has a value independent of any practical use.
BERLIN - Germans used to joke that Chancellor Angela Merkel's penchant for communicating via fleeting text messages effectively marked the end of traditional historiography.
Demagogues like Venezuala's Hugo Chavez or Carlos Menem--an Argentine presidential candidate once again--may seem like a bad joke, but anyone who cares about Latin America's fate should not laughing.
If it were not so profoundly sad, it would qualify as the sick joke of the millennium: Libya has been elected to chair the United Nations Commission on Human Rights!
Its focus was on Western Europe, and, as one joke went, it was designed to keep the Russians out, the Germans down, and the Americans in.
History possesses many stories like this: a political party emerges, and most people think it a bad or sick joke.
A joke making rounds in Moscow nowadays goes like this: Americans didn't know who their President was two months after their last presidential election, but we Russians knew who was going to occupy the Kremlin two years before our recent election.
The existing UN force in southern Lebanon, UNIFIL, is a sad joke.
A local joke claims that Israelis have more parties than voters.
The old jibe about American prosperity was that it was composed of jobs flipping hamburgers and armies of homeless people; the new joke seems to be one of Silicon Valley billionaires and displaced workers from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
If Romney gets angry, or makes a bad joke, his chances could be blown.
Nowadays, low salaries make many lives here miserable, pensions are a joke, and the shadow economy is vast.
There is an old joke about two men who are trapped by a lion in the jungle after a plane crash.
Who doesn't enjoy a joke at the expense of politicians?
The peace process, not surprisingly, becomes a joke while this happens.
People used to joke that we will struggle for peace until there is nothing left on the planet; the threat of climate change makes this prophesy more literal than ever.
Similarly, African-American leaders sometimes joke wryly about gaining the reins of municipal power just when a city is about to go bankrupt.
CAMBRIDGE - There's a joke making the rounds in the Middle East these days: three of Egypt's former presidents, Gamal Abdel Nasser, Anwar el-Sadat, and Hosni Mubarak, meet in hell and ask each other how they fell.
Pure mathematicians supposedly tell a similar joke about their profession.
Mikoyan, as one joke had it, left the Kremlin one day in heavy rain and refused to share a colleague's umbrella.
In a recent joke, an interviewer asks Putin what happened to his favorite dog's puppies, whose birth he proudly announced during last December's parliamentary elections.

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