Answer
Answer noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.
Joke
Joke noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.
How words are described
| best | best answer | best joke |
| long | long answer | long joke |
| exact | exact answer | exact joke |
| particular | particular answer | particular joke |
| Other adjectives: typical, common, short, original, single, obvious, simple, sarcastic, stupid, popular, actual, real, big, bad, quick, well-known, final, next, last, previous, soviet. | ||
Common collocations
Both words in one sentence
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There's a joke with more of a logician's bent: an omniscient being comes to Earth and tells the world that it will answer one question completely truthfully before disappearing forever.
Source: Mathematician's Answer - To their surprise and relief, failure to answer correctly results in harmless joke penalties rather than the expected lethal ones the real target of the joke is the show's executives, who are cynically exploiting the incident for ratings (in a control booth bugged by the Joker).
Source: Unexpectedly Obscure Answer - Also in some circles it's a running joke that "if a Mail headline asks a question, the answer is almost invariably no".
Source: Narm / News
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