joke

1 عمومی:: شوخی‌، بذله‌، لط‌یفه‌، شوخی‌ كردن‌

شبکه مترجمین ایران

1 general:: 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.

Longman-Thesaurus

2 general:: 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

3 general::   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!,   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

4 general:: noun gag: The joke was very funny to all. verb tease: He would joke about anything.

Simple Definitions

5 general:: see CRACK A JOKE; DIRTY JOKE; NO JOKE; SICK JOKE; STANDING JOKE; TAKE A JOKE.

American Heritage Idioms

6 general:: 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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