no joke
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.67 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
phrase
Emphasizing the seriousness or truthfulness of a statement.
noun
Something that should be taken seriously; not something that should be laughed about.
Example Sentences
- "No joke: In February, single copy sales spiked an average 1,116 weekdays and 1,600 on Sundays, an increase Castaneda says can be attributed at least in part to the custody and asylum struggle over the six-year-old Cuban shipwreck survivor."
- "Well over a hundred urban warriors who weren't afraid to die had a bone to pick with me. No joke."
- "lightning just struck Jerzeybell. No joke— saw it blow!"
- "No Joke! We put together more than 1,000 knock-knock jokes about every subject under the sun, along with some hilarious illustrations!"
- "No joke, I was making $50 a day after tax and working so many hours that I had neither the time nor energy to even think about making music."
- "But, sir, it is not a farce to the Canadian people; it is no joke to the Canadian tax-payer. If it is either a farce or a joke, they must foot the bill. No , it is no joke to them; it is something else, and something a great deal worse ."