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I . joke [dʒoʊk, Brit dʒəʊk] N

1. joke:

joke
piada f
to tell a joke
contar uma piada

II . joke [dʒoʊk, Brit dʒəʊk] VB intr

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Usage examples with jokes

he's the butt of everyone's jokes
ele é o alvo das piadas
I've had enough of his jokes
já estou cheio das piadas dele

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

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At the museum, two of the security guards there are playing with static electricity jokes.
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While they tell jokes, canned laughter is played, but the audience appears unamused.
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This grammatical form is especially used when telling jokes, or narrating stories.
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She harshly instructs the comic to just keep telling jokes and leave the business end to her.
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It captures that unmerited sense of ownership, that confident unaccountability, those menacing, charmless jokes.
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She also remarked that the host opened with a series of jokes that were bona fide winners, landing on just the right tone: confident but not cocksure.
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Uyi and his wife just got back from a friend's house-warming where they had so much fun eating, drinking and sharing jokes.
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He is a rambunctious redhead, who is sometimes fond of jokes although he doesn't usually do them to hurt someone's feelings.
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Jokes are recorded on an automatic answering machine.
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Other taboos are challenged by sick jokes and gallows humour, and to joke about disability is considered in this group.
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