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In-joke

Definition: In-joke

In-joke

Noun

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

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Synonyms: In-joke

Synonyms by domain: column clamp (building & civil engineering), cramp joke (building & civil engineering).

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Crosswords: In-joke

Specialty definitions using "in-joke": considered harmful. (references)

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Usage Frequency: In-joke

"In-joke" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "In-joke" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%2245,945

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: In-joke

Language Translations for "in-joke"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Chinese 

  

在笑话. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

안에 농담. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

in-jokeay.(various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: In-joke

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-i-j-k-n-o"

-1 letter: eikon, enoki, koine.

-2 letters: ikon, jeon, jink, join, joke, keno, kine, kino, oink.

-3 letters: eon, ink, ion, jin, joe, ken, kin, koi, oke, one.

-4 letters: en, in, jo, ne, no, oe, on.

 Words containing the letters "e-i-j-k-n-o"
 

+2 letters: jingkoes, jokiness.

 

+3 letters: jockeying.

 

+4 letters: jokinesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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