visual joke

1. 1.

   a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)

   Synonymssight gag

   Broaderjoke

Questions about visual joke

What does visual joke mean?

visual joke means "a joke whose effect is achieved by visual means rather than by speech (as in a movie)".

What is another word for visual joke?

Close synonyms include sight gag. 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 visual joke a common word?

visual 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.