Dial-a-joke

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A type of telephone service where people can call to listen to prerecorded jokes historical, uncountable

    "Two decades ago, Stephen Gary Wozniak owned the first dial-a-joke service in the San Francisco Bay area."

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joke line

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