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one joke

one joke noun: humour satirising transgender and non-binary gender identities through mocking self-identifications (typically by "identifying" as something absurd or self-evident).

Noun

one joke

  1. (derogatory) Humour satirising transgender and non-binary gender identities through mocking self-identifications (typically by "identifying" as something absurd or self-evident).
    • I should add that Gilliam also made that one joke during his aforementioned rants about #MeToo, saying he identifies as, "a melanin-light male."2020 December 9, Gwendolyn Ann Smith, “One Joke too Many”, in Pride Source
    • I have seen fucked up things that suck before and I already know the joke. They only have the one joke. Anti-woke trans-bash comedians are cultivating an audience I want very much not to be a part of.2022 May 25, Steve Albini (quoted), Will Richards, “Steve Albini hits out at Ricky Gervais' "fucked up" Netflix special”, in NME
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see one, joke.

Origin of one joke

Suggesting that the teller of the joke cannot think of any others.

Questions about one joke

What does one joke mean?
One joke means humour satirising transgender and non-binary gender identities through mocking self-identifications (typically by "identifying" as something absurd or self-evident).
What part of speech is one joke?
One joke is a noun.

Words near one joke in the dictionary

  1. one hundred thousand
  2. one in a million
  3. one in the eye for
  4. one in the same
  5. one is a poet and doesn't know it
  6. one joke
  7. one jump ahead
  8. one kind
  9. one L
  10. one legged
  11. one liner

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