Joke and Return

Joke

Joke noun - Something said or done to cause laughter.

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Return and joke are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Return" instead a noun "Joke".

Nearby Words: joking, joker, jokey, joked, jokingly

Return noun - Something spoken or written in reaction especially to a question.

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Joke and return are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Joke" instead a noun "Return".

Nearby Words: returned, returning, returnable, returnee, returner

old	old joke	old return
good	good joke	good return
long	long joke	long return
brief	brief joke	brief return
Other adjectives: original, many, dead, single, actual, entire, real, big, great, little, bad, dark, quick, main, next, last, one-time, earlier, previous.

When a coworker of his finally manages to get him to return to the previous joke, Andrea the (bald) bodyguard comes in.

Source: Cannot Tell a Joke
The Simpsons made a joke about this: "We now return to The Return of the Pink Panther Returns".

Source: Franchise / The Pink Panther
In fact, it's a common joke in the American south that if you play country music backwards, the singer's wife will return to him, bearing his dog and his truck intact.

Source: Diabolus ex Machina

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Return and Joke. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/joke/return

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