Meaning

1 senses
  1. (idiomatic)A joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details (an ingroup).

    After the incident with the potato peeler, references to potatoes became an inside joke among the witnesses.

    Insider, Insiderwitz

Examples

2 sentences
  1. It's an inside joke.

    Це жарт для своїх.

    ruЭто шутка, понятная не всем.

    deDas ist ein Insiderwitz.

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  2. "I don't get it." "Oh, it's an inside joke."

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Translations

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By meaning 1
joke understood or meant to be understood by certain people:

Forms

plural: inside jokes
Singularinside joke
Pluralinside jokes

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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