"groaner" meaning in English

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        "One who groans or complains"
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          "text": "That movie was a real groaner.",
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          "ref": "1993, Peggy O'Brien, Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 127:",
          "text": "From the cleverest repartee to the worst groaner, people use and respond to puns, but sometimes find them hard to define.",
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          "ref": "2005, Donald W. McCaffrey, The Road to Comedy: The Films of Bob Hope, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 2:",
          "text": "In the '40s, I remember ludicrous puns thought to be funny and repeated by teenagers, sometimes to a chorus of laughter. Here is a groaner example: \"Mother, get off the rafters. That is no way to get on the beam.\" Naturally, to understand the joke, it was necessary to know the idiom of the day. \"Get on the beam\" meant \"get with it\" or understand the situation.",
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          "ref": "2010, Deborah Kinnard, Aloha, My Love, Desert Breeze Publishing In, →ISBN:",
          "text": "\"Ever heard a Terry sermon?\" Delaine wanted to know. \"He usually starts with a joke, almost always a groaner. I love his puns! Besides, he's not afraid to tackle any issue, and he makes fun of just about everything in sight.\"",
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        "(informal) A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun."
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        "A whistling buoy."
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          "text": "\"Ever heard a Terry sermon?\" Delaine wanted to know. \"He usually starts with a joke, almost always a groaner. I love his puns! Besides, he's not afraid to tackle any issue, and he makes fun of just about everything in sight.\"",
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