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running jokes

running jokes is the plural of running joke.

Meaning of running joke

Noun

running joke (plural running jokes)

  1. An ongoing joke, one that is regularly repeated or continued.
    • “I Love Lisa” opens with one of my favorite underappreciated running jokes from The Simpsons: the passive-aggressive, quietly contentious relationship of radio jocks Bill and Marty, whose mindless happy talk regularly gives way to charged exchanges that betray the simmering resentment and...2012 August 5, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “I Love Lisa” (season 4, episode 15; originally aired 02/11/1993)”, in The A.V. Club
    Synonyms:
    running gag

Questions about running jokes

What is running jokes the plural of?
Running jokes is the plural of running joke.

Words near running jokes in the dictionary

  1. running into the ground
  2. running iron
  3. running irons
  4. running it up
  5. running joke
  6. running jokes
  7. running knot
  8. running knots
  9. running lane
  10. running lanes
  11. running late

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