Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

fourth-wall joke

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.35 in modern English

Syllables: fourth-wal-l joke
IPA

34

Scrabble Score

14

Letters

3

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Alternative form of fourth wall joke.

Example Sentences

"It was cool to be able to do kind of fourth-wall jokes, where we’re treating the characters as if maybe they’re not just characters."
"One of the great things about 22 Jump Street, which does for sequels what the previous film did for big-screen TV adaptations, is that it incorporates all its fourth-wall jokes and references into an actual plot."
"Brooks’ formula includes a tight script, likable characters, Borscht Belt humor, vaudevillian song and dance numbers, deliberately Brechtian fourth-wall jokes, intertextual references to other films and personalities, provocative innuendo, and colorful language, creating films that are outré yet have wide audience appeal."
"Guess I really like fourth-wall jokes."

Inflected Forms

fourth-wall jokes (plural)

Questions

What does fourth-wall joke mean?: Alternative form of fourth wall joke.

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