locker room humor
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- noun
- /ˈlɑːkər ruːm ˈhjuːmər/
- Offensive
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humor de vestuario
- In the locker room humor after the game, they didn't hold back on their jokes about each other's performance.
Examples
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Some readers took Dr. Greenfield's comments as a sort of locker-room humor and thought he was merely writing to his audience.
Blog text (25) -
The team shared lots of locker room humor after their victory celebration, filling the air with laughter.
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His jokes are often crude, but they are just typical locker room humor that guys enjoy.
Synonyms
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A joke that talks about sex or private parts in a rude way
Rude funny talk or actions about sex that shock people
A rude or vulgar remark that embarrasses people
Jokes about the body's natural actions that many people find rude or childish
How Crude
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is partly derivable from the parts: 'locker' + 'room' indicates the setting and 'humor' indicates jokes, so a learner will grasp that it refers to jokes associated with a locker room. However, the specific pragmatic connotations (crude, sexually explicit, often sexist) rely on cultural knowledge and idiomatic use ('locker-room talk'), which are not fully predictable from the literal words alone.
Etymology
Locker room humor comes from sports locker rooms, where players relax in private and often tell rude or sexual jokes. That's why the word humor here means 'crude or sexually explicit jokes', and the whole phrase describes jokes shared in informal groups.