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"ref": "1980 September 29, Roger Rosenblatt, “The People's Analyst”, in Time, retrieved 2009-10-18",
"text": "Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.",
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"ref": "2003 July 29, Lenore Skenazy, “Bob Hope's Jokes Just Lived For the Moment”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 2009-10-18",
"text": "\"There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood,\" Hope mused on his World War II tours. \"USO - Use Slacks Only.\" Ho ho ho. Women wearing pants. Real thigh-slapper.",
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"(idiomatic) A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous."
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"word": "knee slapper"
},
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"word": "thigh slapper"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "dijenkletser"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"word": "hulvaton vitsi"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "blague désopilante"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "blague à se tordre de rire"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Schenkelklopfer"
}
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"word": "knee slapper"
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"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
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"masculine"
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"word": "dijenkletser"
},
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"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"word": "hulvaton vitsi"
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"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "blague désopilante"
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"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "blague à se tordre de rire"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "particularly humorous joke",
"tags": [
"masculine"
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"word": "Schenkelklopfer"
}
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"word": "thigh-slapper"
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