0 something, such as a funny story or trick, that is said or done in order to make people laugh:
Don't you get (= understand) the joke?
He tried to do a comedy routine, but all his jokes fell flat (= no one laughed at them).
I hope Rob doesn't tell any of his dirty jokes (= jokes about sex) when my mother's here.
She spent the evening cracking (= telling) jokes and telling funny stories.
Did I tell you the joke about the chicken crossing the road?
2 to say funny things:
She wasn't joking (= she was serious) when she said she was going to move out of the house.
I thought he was joking when he said Helen was pregnant, but she really is.
[ + speech ] "I didn't expect to be out so soon", he joked, after spending nine months in hospital.
It's more serious than you think, so please don't joke about it.
3 something, such as an amusing story or trick, that is said or done in order to make people laugh:
4 something considered to be so bad or worthless that it is ridiculous:
It's much better to wait for at least one good joke and perhaps some cheerful nudity.
Most are obviously and deliberately jokes about these places "made up" by local community members.
The twenty seem to have been incompetent "young gentlemen," whom the police authorities treated as something of a joke.
At the same time, through ridicule, the joke puts them firmly back in their place.
Indeed, it was misleading, a joke, beneath serious criticism, and it got none.
Ageism is experienced in interactions in various forms, including jokes about growing older.
Would we not expect to find at least some bawdy allusions in male jokes and social satires?
Among the staff, humor and joking together provided a means of negotiating the tension around hierarchical differences.
