one-liner

1. 1.

   a one-line joke

   Broaderjoke

Questions about one-liner

What does one-liner mean?

one-liner means "a one-line joke".

How many syllables are in one-liner?

one-liner has 4 syllables and divides as o-ne--li-ner 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 one-liner a common word?

one-liner 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.