blue joke

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   an indelicate joke

   Synonymsdirty jokedirty storyblue story

   Broaderjoke

Questions about blue joke

What does blue joke mean?

blue joke means "an indelicate joke".

What is another word for blue joke?

Close synonyms include dirty joke, dirty story, blue story. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blue joke a common word?

blue joke is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.