Antijoke
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A sentence or story that subverts the expectation of a joke, often by being deliberately unfunny or surreal.
"Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke."
Example
More examples"Thank Christ for Carlton. My secret. My lifeline. The inventor of the antijoke. I kid you not. He postulated a category of things that don't make you laugh which he called the antijoke."
Etymology
From anti- + joke.
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