jokebook
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of jokebook
Example Sentences
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He stood atop my desk in what are now his product-launch trademark OshKosh B’gosh overalls and red Keds, using a yardstick and the blackboard to outline his start-up’s key features, such as hamster-health wearable monitoring, frictionless nap-rug-sharing and a user-modifiable cloud-based dinosaur jokebook.
From New York Times
The few successful female stand-up comics at the time were people like Phyllis Diller, who did jokebook gags poking fun at her fright-haired looks and ineptness as a housewife.
From Time
But Archie Bunker's righteous outrage has been replaced by Gary Coleman's jokebook, and the conflicts are resolved with a pat 1950s-style sentimentality that seems phonier than ever.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Bernstein was quoted as saying that the script read like a Henny Youngman jokebook.
From Time Magazine Archive
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There is little of the dentist-office jokebook about the new Life.
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