inside joke

noun

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

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Add your own photo and customize the title with an inside joke or sweet reference for your most thoughtful gift to date. Blake Bakkila, Architectural Digest, 13 May 2025 Heroic Couple Stops to Help 'Visibly Distressed' Mother Duck After Her 9 Ducklings Get Trapped Abby says the video was more of an inside joke than a social experiment. Ashley Vega, People.com, 16 Apr. 2025 Regardless, Summit Ice took off and became an inside joke among fans of Fielder, generating $300,000 in sales in the company’s first eight weeks, with profits donated to the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre. Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 28 Apr. 2025 The final winner of the vote was a name that was an inside joke, but that didn’t sound edible. Sam Corbin, New York Times, 8 Apr. 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 22 May. 2025.

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