crack a joke

crack a joke
crack a joke
to tell a joke. •

She's never serious. She's always cracking jokes.

Every time Tom cracked a joke, his buddies broke up laughing.

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{v. phr.}, {informal} To make a joke; tell a joke. * /The men sat around the stove, smoking and cracking jokes./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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  • crack a joke — play a joke …   English contemporary dictionary

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