dial-a-joke
dial-a-joke noun: a type of telephone service where people can call to listen to prerecorded jokes.
Noun
dial-a-joke (uncountable)
- A type of telephone service where people can call to listen to prerecorded jokes.
- Two decades ago, Stephen Gary Wozniak owned the first dial-a-joke service in the San Francisco Bay area.1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired, archived from the original on 10 Aug 2011
- Synonyms:
- joke line
Synonyms of dial-a-joke
Questions about dial-a-joke
- What does dial-a-joke mean?
- Dial-a-joke means a type of telephone service where people can call to listen to prerecorded jokes.
- What part of speech is dial-a-joke?
- Dial-a-joke is a noun.
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