Definition of In-joke

1. Noun. A joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people.

Generic synonyms: Gag, Jape, Jest, Joke, Laugh

Definition of In-joke

1. Noun. A piece of humour that is understood only by a group of people. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of In-joke

in-bounds
in-box
in-boxes
in-built
in-chief(ip)
in-depth
in-engine
in-fighting
in-fill
in-flight
in-game
in-group
in-hospital
in-house
in-joke (current term)
in-jokes
in-kind
in-law
in-laws
in-line
in-line expansion
in-line expansions
in-line skate
in-line skater
in-line skates
in-line skating
in-migration
in-off
in-office imaging

Literary usage of In-joke

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"... and were always present to him even in his merriest moods, and it was evidently under this feeling that he said—more in earnest than in joke, though he ..."

2. I Promessi Sposi: (The Betrothed) by Alessandro Manzoni (1909)
"'I only said it in a joke,' cried he, in Renzo's face, repulsing him, and pushing him towards the bed—'In joke: didn't you understand that I only said it in ..."

3. The Parliamentary Debatesby Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament by Thomas Curson Hansard, Great Britain Parliament (1821)
"That may be so ; but if he did not make it in joke, he has perjured himself; if he did make this application in joke, to what follows, he must have answered ..."

4. Erasmus Darwin by Charles Darwin (1880)
"... but whether in joke or earnest, it is difficult to conjecture: I promise to pay to Dr. Darwin of Lichfield one thousand pounds upon his delivering to me ..."

5. The Life of Petrarch: Collected from Memoires Pour la Vie de Petrarch by Dobson (Susannah) (1807)
"... in memory of Scipio Africanus, whose country-house was so called; and in joke sometimes he called it the Inferno. 1358. While Petrarch was in this ..."

6. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"I only said it in a joke,' cried he, in Renzo's face, repulsing him, and pushing him towards the bed—'In joke: didn't you understand that I only said it in ..."

7. Erasmus Darwin by Ernst Krause, Charles Darwin (1880)
"... but whether in joke or earnest, it is difficult to conjecture: I promise to pay to Dr. Darwin of Lichfield one thousand pounds upon his delivering to me ..."

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