2. Adjective. (slang) Really good ¹
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Definition of Jokes
1. joke [v] - See also: joke
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jokes
Literary usage of Jokes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of "Punch" by Marion Harry Spielmann (1895)
"of the jokes sent in to Punch " from outside " are worthy either of ... In the
United States the providing of jokes for illustration in the comic press is ..."
2. Our American Humorists by Thomas Lansing Masson (1922)
"During the past twenty years I have written ove: fifty thousand jokes, averaging
fifty a ... jokes sell all the way from twenty-five cents up tc $5 each. ..."
3. The Sense of Humor by Max Eastman (1921)
"For here we have already, with our distinction between simple humor and jokes
with a point, and between the two currents of value, positive and negative, ..."
4. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"(A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.) "I have
talked with them a little since Miss ..."
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