broke jokes
Delivered comedic lines
Broke jokes means cracked jokes or made jokes—delivered humor, usually in a social setting.
The phrase uses broke in its sense of initiating or releasing something: He broke jokes all through dinner.
Common in casual speech, especially in African American Vernacular English.
- crackedHaving surface fractures
- cracking upLaughing until helpless
- laughedVocalized mirth
- punchlineHumor's final delivery
- wisecracksClever, mocking remarks
roasted · roast battle · teased · quipped · hilarious · comedian · standup · comedy club · open mic · heckled · ribbed · banter · zingers · gags · oneliners · set list · riffed · audience
- money jokesloan shark, bubble burst, bull market, bear market, junk bonds
- self-deprecationself-mockery, self-effacement, self-criticism, deprecation, humble brag
speech register/tone
broke jokespreached
Delivered religious discourse
reprimanded · scolded · lectured · read the riot act · pontificated
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