cracker-ass joke
- noun
- /ˈkrækər æs dʒoʊk/
- Offensive
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chiste de mierda
- Nobody laughed at his cracker-ass joke during the meeting.
Examples
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Samantha rolled her eyes when Tom tried to break the ice with a cracker-ass joke.
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I can't believe you told a cracker-ass joke at the party.
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I've heard enough of your cracker-ass jokes for one night.
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That was a terrible cracker-ass joke!
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Nobody laughed at his cracker-ass joke during the meeting.
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Samantha rolled her eyes when Tom tried to break the ice with a cracker-ass joke.
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I can't believe you told a cracker-ass joke at the party.
Synonyms
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2.5
A remark meant to make people laugh that is not funny or is rude
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3.8
A silly, old-fashioned joke that is too easy to guess
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8.0
A joke that is so bad it makes people show annoyance
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
cracker-ass + joke
The headword contains a slang intensifier ('-ass') attached to 'cracker', which does not have a clear, standard dictionary meaning here; however the combination functions as a derogatory qualifier for 'joke'. A B1 learner who knows 'joke' and the coarse sense of 'ass' might infer that it is an insulting/very negative modifier, but the exact nuance and lexical origin are slangy and culture-specific, so comprehension is partial rather than fully predictable.
Etymology
Cracker-ass joke comes from a slang way of making an insult: cracker used to mean 'cheap' or 'lame' and ass makes the word harsher. So a cracker-ass joke gives the image of a really weak, low-quality joke, and that's why people use it to call a joke 'very bad' or 'not funny'.