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groaners

groaners is the plural of groaner.

Meaning of groaner

Noun

groaner (plural groaners)

  1. One who groans or complains.
    • I don’t need to hear from groaners like you.
  2. (informal) A work of extremely low quality, so bad as to inspire groaning.
    • That movie was a real groaner.
  3. (informal) A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.
    • From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.1993, Peggy O'Brien, Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 127
    Antonyms:
    knee slapper
  4. (slang) A whistling buoy.

Questions about groaners

What is groaners the plural of?
Groaners is the plural of groaner.

Words near groaners in the dictionary

  1. groan tube
  2. groan tubes
  3. groane
  4. groaned
  5. groaner
  6. groaners
  7. groanes
  8. groanest
  9. groaneth
  10. groanful
  11. groanin'

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