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dial-a-jokes

dial-a-jokes is the plural of dial-a-joke.

Meaning of dial-a-joke

Noun

dial-a-joke (uncountable)

  1. (historical) 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

Questions about dial-a-jokes

What is dial-a-jokes the plural of?
Dial-a-jokes is the plural of dial-a-joke.

Words near dial-a-jokes in the dictionary

  1. dial towards
  2. dial up
  3. dial-a-date
  4. dial-a-dates
  5. dial-a-joke
  6. dial-a-jokes
  7. dial-a-ride
  8. dial-a-ride problem
  9. dial-a-ride problems
  10. dial-a-yield
  11. dial-around

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