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                           joke  a funny story that you tell people to make them laugh:  • We all sat around telling jokes. • Have you heard the joke about the man who found a frog in his soup?  funny story  a short story that someone tells to make people laugh:  • He was one of those guys who are good at telling funny stories at dinner parties.  gag  a short joke, especially one told by a professional entertainer:  • He’s a great comedian, with plenty of good gags.  one-liner  a very short joke or funny remark:  • There are some memorable one-liners in the film.  wisecrack  a funny remark or reply, especially one that is said in a very quick and clever way:  • It’s a comic masterpiece, packed with classic wisecracks.  pun  ( also play on words ) a joke made by mixing up two different meanings of the same word, or two words with the same sound:  • a pun on the words ‘bear’ and ‘bare’ • The title of the book is a witty play on words. • Shakespeare used a lot of puns for comic effect.  quip  written something funny and clever that someone says:  • He made some friendly quip about hair loss, and everyone laughed.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           Phrase(s): joke (with someone) (about someone or something)  to quip with someone about someone or something; to make verbal fun with someone about someone or something.  •  I was joking with Tom about the performance.  •  I joked about Andy with Fran.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
                    
                    
                    
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                             verb ADV.  half She was only half joking about being prime minister one day. PREP.  about We joked about the amount of luggage we had to carry. | with joking with her friends PHRASES  be only joking Don't worry, I'm only joking! | joking apart/aside (= used to show you are now being serious after you have said sth funny), laugh and joke They laughed and joked as they walked along. | you must be joking No way am I doing that. You must be joking!
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        Oxford Collocations Dictionary
                    
                    
                    
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                           noun gag:   The joke was very funny to all. verb tease:   He would joke about anything.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           see CRACK A JOKE; DIRTY JOKE; NO JOKE; SICK JOKE; STANDING JOKE; TAKE A JOKE.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                           joke verbs  tell a joke  (= repeat a funny story ) • He was always telling jokes and making people laugh.  make a joke  ( also crack a joke ) (= say something intended to be funny ) • He was cracking jokes and seemed relaxed and happy.  get a joke  (= understand a joke and find it funny ) • She never gets my jokes.  laugh at sb’s jokes  • A few people laughed at his jokes, but some didn’t find them funny.  play a joke on somebody  (= trick someone to make people laugh ) • John’s always playing jokes on his brothers.  adjectives  a good/funny joke  • I heard a really good joke the other day.  a bad/terrible joke  (= not funny ) • Dad was known for his bad jokes.  a cruel/sick joke  (= very unkind ) • When I heard he had cancer, at first I thought it was some kind of sick joke.  an old joke  • It reminded me of the old joke about the chicken crossing the road.  a dirty joke  (= about sex ) • A bunch of boys were telling dirty jokes.  a practical joke  (= that involves tricking someone ) • What the workers think is a practical joke, management might regard as sabotage.  an inside/a private joke  (= that only a few people who are involved in something will understand ) • After I’d worked there a while, I started to understand some of the inside jokes.  a running joke  (= in which people always laugh when the same situation happens, or when someone says something ) • It’s a running joke in our house that my husband can never find his keys.  phrases  a joke falls flat  (= people don’t find a joke funny ) • His practical jokes usually fell flat.  be the butt of a joke  (= be the person a joke is made about, so that people laugh at you ) • Somehow he’d become the butt of all his classmates’ jokes.  COMMON ERRORS  >>>  Do not say 'say a joke' . Say tell a joke . 
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
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                             noun ADJ.  funny, good | old That's an old joke?I've heard it lots of times. | cruel, sick | huge | dirty VERB + JOKE  crack, make, tell He's marvellous at telling jokes. | play He's always playing jokes on people. | have, share She likes to have a joke with her employees. | hear | get, laugh at We all fell about laughing, but he didn't get the joke. | take The trouble is she can't take a joke. | treat sth as He treated his exams as a huge joke. JOKE + VERB  fall flat The audience weren't very responsive and the jokes fell a bit flat. | be on sb I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me. PREP.  as a ~ It was only said as a joke. | ~ about Have you heard the joke about the elephant and the mouse? PHRASES  make a joke of sth We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn't really funny.
                           
                           
                           
                           
                        
    
                       
                    
                        
                        
                        
                    
 
                    
                        Oxford Collocations Dictionary