ethnic joke

1. 1.

   a joke at the expense of some ethnic group

   Broaderjoke

Questions about ethnic joke

What does ethnic joke mean?

ethnic joke means "a joke at the expense of some ethnic group".

Is ethnic joke a common word?

ethnic joke is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.