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  • Joke — This article is about the form of humour. For other uses, see Joke (disambiguation). Contents 1 Purpose 2 Antiquity of jokes 3 …   Wikipedia

  • joke — I n. 1) to crack, tell a joke 2) to ad lib a joke 3) to play a joke on 4) to carry a joke too far 5) to take a joke (he can t take a joke) 6) to make a joke of smt. 7) a clean; coarse, crude; dirty, obscene, off color, smutty; old, stale;… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • joke — joke, jest, jape, quip, witticism, wisecrack, crack, gag are comparable when they mean a remark, story, or action intended to evoke laughter. Joke, when applied to a story or remark, suggests something designed to promote good humor and… …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • joke|ster — «JOHK stuhr», noun. U.S. Informal. a person fond of jokes; humorist: »... the classic telegram perpetrated by a Hollywood jokester who sent a cluster of his friends into a frenzy by wiring each of them: PLEASE DISREGARD PREVIOUS WIRE (Saturday… …   Useful english dictionary

  • joke — [[t]ʤo͟ʊk[/t]] ♦♦♦ jokes, joking, joked 1) N COUNT: oft N about n A joke is something that is said or done to make you laugh, for example a funny story. He debated whether to make a joke about shooting rabbits, but decided against it... No one… …   English dictionary

  • into — [[t]ɪntuː[/t]] ♦ (Pronounced [[t]ɪntuː[/t]] or [[t]ɪ̱ntuː[/t]], particularly before pronouns and for meaning 14.) 1) PREP If you put one thing into another, you put the first thing inside the second. Combine the remaining ingredients and put them …   English dictionary

  • joke — [17] Latin jocus meant ‘jest, joke’ (a possible link with Old High German gehan ‘say’ and Sanskrit yācati ‘he implores’ suggests that its underlying meaning was ‘word play’). It passed into Old French as jeu, which lies behind English jeopardy… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • joke — [17] Latin jocus meant ‘jest, joke’ (a possible link with Old High German gehan ‘say’ and Sanskrit yācati ‘he implores’ suggests that its underlying meaning was ‘word play’). It passed into Old French as jeu, which lies behind English jeopardy… …   Word origins

  • Meta-joke — refers to several somewhat different, but related categories: self referential jokes, jokes about jokes (also known as metahumor), and joke templates.[citation needed] Contents 1 Self referential jokes 2 Joke about jokes (metahumor) …   Wikipedia

  • Elephant joke — An elephant joke is a joke, almost always an absurd riddle or conundrum and often a sequence of such, that involves an elephant. Elephant jokes were a fad in the 1960s, with many people constructing large numbers of them according to a set… …   Wikipedia

  • Mathematical joke — A mathematical joke is a form of humor which relies on aspects of mathematics or a stereotype of mathematicians to derive humor. The humor may come from a pun, or from a double meaning of a mathematical term. It may also come from a lay person s… …   Wikipedia

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