running joke/gag

noun

: a joke/gag that is repeated many times in slightly different ways

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Here, there’s a running joke in which no one in Montreal knows anything about the rest of the country — that gag is as pointed as Rankin gets about real-world politics. Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2025 There was a running joke in the Black community about groups like the Black Panthers, SNCC, CORE, the NAACP, who would regularly go out fundraising. Garrett Morris, TIME, 12 Feb. 2025 During the Buffalo Bills’ playoff drought, ESPN anchor Kevin Connors used to have a running joke on air. Matthew Fairburn, The Athletic, 25 Jan. 2025 And their seeming failure to look at it has become a running joke with my husband. Philip Galanes, New York Times, 1 Jan. 2025 See all Example Sentences for running joke/gag 

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“Running joke/gag.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/running%20joke%2Fgag. Accessed 21 Feb. 2025.

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