in-joke

1. 1.

   a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people

   Broaderjoke

Questions about in-joke

What does in-joke mean?

in-joke means "a joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people".

How many syllables are in in-joke?

in-joke has 2 syllables and divides as in--joke under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is in-joke a common word?

in-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.