inside joke

noun

: a joke that is understood only by people with special knowledge about something

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The whole night felt like nothing so much as an inside joke Mulaney had with himself, and really, who wouldn’t want to be in on that? Emma Specter, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2025 Deep inside the tunnel, awaiting a sprint onto court, Mark Williams smirks while making an inside joke to a staffer before ribbing an assistant coach for stepping over a barrier without tripping. Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 13 Mar. 2025 Newsom’s California budget gimmicks mask underlying problems ‘Too damn hard to build’: An East Bay Democrat’s push for speedier construction California legislation about Bigfoot started as an inside joke. Dan Walters, The Mercury News, 10 Mar. 2025 That’s the two of them, in the break room, sharing an inside joke about avocados. Graham Techler, The New Yorker, 23 Jan. 2025 See All Example Sentences for inside joke

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“Inside joke.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inside%20joke. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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