Definitions for joke

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joke joke

Spelling: [johk]

IPA: /dʒoʊk/

Joke is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 15 anagrams from letters in joke (ejko).

Definitions for joke

noun

1. something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act:
2. something that is amusing or ridiculous, especially because of being ludicrously inadequate or a sham; a thing, situation, or person laughed at rather than taken seriously; farce:
3. a matter that need not be taken very seriously; trifling matter:
4. something that does not present the expected challenge; something very easy:
5. practical joke.

verb (used with object)

1. to subject to jokes; make fun of; tease.
2. to obtain by joking:

verb (used without object)

1. to speak or act in a playful or merry way:
2. to say something in fun or teasing rather than in earnest; be facetious:

Origin of joke

First recorded in 1660-70, joke is from the Latin word jocus jest

Examples for joke

And that was well before this Christmas, when he appeared to joke about Obama being a Muslim.

As it can be "no joke" to them, perhaps it should be no joke to us: though, on reflection, we are not so very like.

Have you heard the joke by Iraqi Kurds about ISIS fighters milking male goats?

Then he seemed to consider it best to treat my natural disappointment as a joke.

"It was no tiger at all—that was the joke of the thing," said the major.

Within a concentration camp, would someone make a joke about the number, the tattooed number?

"Sit it, you mean," said young Bartlett, laughing with the others at his own joke.

At first you kept on wondering what the joke was, till you saw it was only a habit Sarah had.

Anyone willing to threaten war over a joke is clearly not playing with a full deck.

Fortunately, Martin was a good sport about the game, even if there was a joke about the Red Wedding.