Sentence examples for knee slapper from inspiring English sources

Idiom

Knee slapper.

A knee slapper is something that is considered funny, though it is often used sarcastically.

Dictionary

knee slapper

noun

A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous.

Exact(4)

He thought the food stamp joke was pretty good but hardly a knee slapper.

It's hard to tell if his point was to see if THE DUMBOCRATS accidentally passed his bill or if it was merely the passive trollery of, "Look, here's a better bill"; either way, it's a knee slapper for the sort of people who get email updates from Townhall.com.

India's Satyam Computer Services, which imploded this month, took its name from the Sanskrit word for "trust," a move that's become a knee slapper at this point, or a forehead slapper for those whose jobs were affected.

Damn it if the stress of that situation doesn't kill her before the cancer does, now that is a knee slapper!

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Patient surfers willing to wade through the often puerile contributions will be rewarded with hard to find screen gems, nostalgic news reels, instructional videos and even well-produced, albeit homemade, knee slappers.

Did Mike "Dad Joke" Huckabee write these knee slappers?

His performance, laced with songs that he has written, manages to make suffering a knee-slapper.

That was about as much of a knee-slapper as Mr. Franken told, at least in public.

She made her Broadway debut in a 1985 revival of "The Iceman Cometh," hardly a knee-slapper.

(Typical flatness knee-slapper: "North Dakota is so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days").

There's at least one moment on every Korn album that's either a primal confession or a unintentional knee-slapper.

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