- joke
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ amusing, funny, good, hilarious▪
She didn't seem to find my jokes amusing.
▪ old▪That's an old joke—I've heard it lots of times.
▪ bad, corny, dumb (AmE), lame, silly, stupid, unfunny (esp. BrE)▪ cruel, sick▪ racist, sexist▪ crude, dirty, off-colour/off-color (esp. AmE)▪ inside (esp. AmE), private▪They kept telling inside jokes about people I didn't know.
▪ running▪The show features a running joke about a nosy dog.
▪ practical▪His brothers were always playing practical jokes.
▪ huge▪It's all just a huge joke to you, isn't it?
VERB + JOKE▪ crack, make, tell▪He's excellent at telling jokes.
▪ play▪He's always playing jokes on people.
▪ exchange, have (esp. BrE), share▪She likes to share a joke with her employees.
▪ hear▪ appreciate, enjoy, get, laugh at, like, understand▪We all fell about laughing, but he didn't get the joke.
▪She doesn't like jokes about her height.
▪ remember▪ spoil▪He told us the ending, completely spoiling the joke.
▪ miss▪Am I missing the joke here?
▪ 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 wasn't very responsive and the jokes fell flat.
▪ be on sb▪I thought I'd play a trick on them, but in the end the joke was on me.
PREPOSITION▪ as a joke▪It was only said as a joke.
▪ joke about▪Have you heard the joke about the elephant and the mouse?
PHRASES▪ make a joke of sth▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}We tried to make a joke of our situation, but it wasn't really funny.
verbADVERB▪ half▪She was only half joking about being president one day.
▪ around▪Everyone just joked around and enjoyed themselves.
▪ lamely, weakly▪ good-naturedly, playfullyPREPOSITION▪ about▪We joked about the amount of equipment we had to carry.
▪ with▪She's always joking with her friends.
PHRASES▪ be only joking▪Don't worry, I'm only joking!
▪ joking apart (BrE), joking 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, you've got to be joking (esp. AmE)▪No way am I doing that. You must be joking!
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
