jokes
n. uncountablen. something that is very funny or a situation that is great fun. In British slang, you use it to describe a person or event that makes you laugh a lot.
n. an event, person, or situation perceived as highly amusing or entertaining. Informal in register and primarily used in British English as a predicative complement.
That party last night was absolute jokes.
We spent the whole afternoon at the beach and it was pure jokes from start to finish.
While the film was intended to be a serious drama, the low-budget effects were so poor that the entire viewing experience was total jokes.
In this slang sense, it is uncountable and typically follows the verb 'to be' (e.g., 'it was jokes').
It was a jokes.It was jokes.In its slang sense meaning 'funny', the word is uncountable and does not take an indefinite article.