DAD JOKE Definition & Meaning

dad joke

[dad johk]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Informal.

a corny joke or pun suggestive of those made by fathers to their children.
You don’t have to have kids to tell awful dad jokes.

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51�Թ� History and Origins

Origin of dad joke¹

First recorded in 1985–90

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With AI writing something as simple as a holiday greeting, we lose the charm in the occasional grammatical error, the typo and the silly dad joke.

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When it became clear on Tuesday that Trump was going to win, Musk tweeted an unsubtle hint: a picture of himself carrying a sink into the Oval Office, a reprise of the dad joke he made when he bought Twitter.

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It's a skill he underplays, even when he earnestly lobs a corny dad joke at me — "You know what zero said to eight? Nice belt."

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His version of a dad joke meant, I think, to jauntily suggest that I wasn’t his?

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They were also brought together in laughter when Walz offered a corny dad joke about Vance: "I can't wait to debate JD Vance. That is, if he's willing to get off the couch and show up."

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What is a dad joke?

The term dad joke is used to refer to a joke that's intentionally corny—the kind of joke that dads are known to tell their kids (or any random person they encounter). In most cases, the punch lines of dad jokes involve a pun or some form of wordplay.

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