"dirty joke" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: dirty jokes [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} dirty joke (plural dirty jokes)
  1. A joke with a morally objectionable or obscene punchline. Translations (joke with an obscene punchline): 下流的笑話 (Chinese Mandarin), 下流的笑话 (xiàliú de xiàohuà) (Chinese Mandarin), 黃段子 (Chinese Mandarin), 黄段子 (huángduànzi) (Chinese Mandarin), tuhma vitsi (Finnish), blague de cul [feminine] (French), Zote (english: sexual) [feminine] (German), anstößiger Witz (english: sexual or otherwise) [masculine] (German), dónabrandari [masculine] (Icelandic), 下ネタ (shimoneta) (alt: しもネタ) (Japanese), piada suja [feminine] (Portuguese), glumă porcoasă [feminine] (Romanian), fräckis (Swedish)

Inflected forms

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