dial-a-joke

English

Noun

dial-a-joke (uncountable)

  1. (historical) A type of telephone service where people can call to listen to prerecorded jokes
    Synonym: joke line
    • 1998 September, Gary Wolf, “The World According to Woz”, in Wired‎[1], archived from the original on 10 August 2011:
      Two decades ago, Stephen Gary Wozniak owned the first dial-a-joke service in the San Francisco Bay area.
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