other words for joke
- antic
- farce
- gag
- humor
- laugh
- one-liner
- parody
- prank
- pun
- stunt
- trick
- wisecrack
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- caper
- caprice
- chestnut
- drollery
- epigram
- escapade
- frolic
- gambol
- game
- ha-ha
- hoodwinking
- horseplay
- jape
- jest
- lark
- mischief
- mummery
- payoff
- play
- pleasantry
- put-on
- quirk
- raillery
- repartee
- revel
- rib
- sally
- saw
- shenanigan
- sport
- spree
- tomfoolery
- vagary
- whimsy
- witticism
- yarn
- bon mot
- monkeyshine
- shaggy-dog story
- snow job
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He burst into a paroxysm of self-applausive mirth over his joke, in which a couple of satellites near at hand joined.
"He's bes' joke yet," Strong remarked through Rex's fingers.
Cigarette laughed saucily and heartily, tickled at the joke.
Lincoln was especially fond of a joke at the expense of some high military or civil dignitary.
Once, by way of a joke, young Sia put a small snake into a parcel, which he gave her and told her to open.
“It is a shame,” agreed Ruth, looking at the victim of the joke curiously.
It was the joke of the place that if a German chemist arrived, all business was paralyzed until his secret was seized.
Of late, people had even begun to joke about Donna Tullia's third husband.
I said, "He'll call us back; he cannot mean this only as a joke."
"The joke's on you," he said, and pulled the trigger, then laughed again.
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