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- noun Plural form of
joke . - adjective slang Really good
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Examples
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shot in the head on New Year's Eve 2005 and only recently discovered the bullet and had it removed. * no Polish jokes, no Polish jokes, no Polish jokes*
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Whereas in papers like Esquire, for instance, or La Vie Parisienne, the imaginary background of the jokes is always promiscuity, the utter breakdown of all standards, the background of the McGill post card is marriage.
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That's another of what you call your jokes; but you should keep 'em for those who like 'em.
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Douglas William Jerrold 1830
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And when everybody was looking like a bad wax-candle, you could walk about, and make what you call your jokes upon the little buoy that was never sick at the
Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures Douglas William Jerrold 1830
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"Little Fockers" PG-13: The name jokes continue in part three of the franchise, with Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Owen Wilson, Laura Dern, Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand.
The Seattle Times 2011
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Calling attacks in people with painfull, terminal diseases, "jokes" is sick and hatefull.
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Reason 12,314 I will never work for the New York Post: a history of creating headlines that contain "jokes" that. 0006% of the audience gets.
Wither Thom Price? 2006
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– Elvis Costello, right before his new song From Sulphur to Sugarcane, a very, very fine song indeed. posted by Brandon Hobson in jokes, music, politics, video | * | comment
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When I think of you, my Dick Gephardt. posted by Deron Bauman in jokes, language, memory, politics | * | comment
punchline from a political cartoon from the late 80s | clusterflock 2009
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The over-the-top nature of certain jokes has just been falling flat to me, including (but not limited to) all of those moments he mentioned.
GHibbs commented on the word jokes
It is also 3rd person singular of the verb 'to joke'. Do not worry about what he says 'he jokes!'. OED does not appear to have an entry 'jokes', though it uses the word on the page about 'joke'.
September 7, 2011
rolig commented on the word jokes
GHibbs, most dictionaries do not give separate entries for regular inflections of words. You may safely assume that the 3rd pers. sg. present form of a verb is derived by adding an -s. Dictionaries only specify inflected forms if they are irregular, for example, is, goes, and does.
September 7, 2011