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anti-joke

anti-joke is the alternative form of antijoke.

Meaning of antijoke

Noun

antijoke (plural antijokes)

  1. A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal.
    • Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke.1999, Eric Idle, The Road to Mars, Knopf Doubleday, →ISBN, page 31

Forms of anti-joke

pluralanti-jokes

Questions about anti-joke

What is anti-joke the alternative form of?
Anti-joke is the alternative form of antijoke.

Words near anti-joke in the dictionary

  1. anti-jamming
  2. anti-Japanese
  3. anti-Jewish
  4. anti-Jewishness
  5. anti-Jewism
  6. anti-joke
  7. anti-jokes
  8. anti-Judaic
  9. anti-Judaism
  10. anti-K
  11. anti-kangaroo

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