Idiom
inside joke
Meaning
A joke that is understood or meant to be understood only by certain people who are aware of the details (an ingroup).
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“They laughed at an inside joke during dinner.”
“I felt a bit left out because my friends kept laughing at an inside joke from their trip.”
“The colleagues shared a knowing glance, their amusement sparked by an inside joke that remained entirely opaque to the rest of the room.”
Examples
simple
“They laughed at an inside joke during dinner.”
contextual
“I felt a bit left out because my friends kept laughing at an inside joke from their trip.”
complex
“The colleagues shared a knowing glance, their amusement sparked by an inside joke that remained entirely opaque to the rest of the room.”
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