in-joke

Definitions

Examples

• Policemen on the show joke about prison riots, bomb threats, and the shooting of unarmed civilians.

• This is a guy who has his son-in-law clean his eyeglasses, for crying out loud.

• Her travel clique has been known to arrive at an airport, bags packed, passport-in-hand, within hours of spotting a deal.

• A running joke inside the tribe is that the group is like that club with a hundred people waiting outside to get in.

• Earl Spencer adds, “Effectively, my great-grandfather sold his children to his father-in-law.”

• The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!

• Such throats are trying, are they not?In case one catches cold; Ah, yes!

• Mr. Crow was rocking back and forth on his perch, for a joke—on anybody except himself—always delighted him.

• Well, thinks I, this is no joke sure, at this lick I'll have family enuff to do me in a few years.

• The commander-in-chief still kept him attached to the headquarter staff, and constantly employed him on special service.