Meanings
plural thigh-slappers · alternative thigh slapper
- idiomaticSynonym of knee-slapper.
Not exactly a thigh-slapper, but not terrible for a psychiatrist joke either.
1980 September 29, Roger Rosenblatt, “The People's Analyst”, in Time, retrieved 18 Oct 20091 more example
"There's a lot of USO girls in Hollywood," Hope mused on his World War II tours. "USO - Use Slacks Only." Ho ho ho. Women wearing pants. Real thigh-slapper.
2003 July 29, Lenore Skenazy, “Bob Hope's Jokes Just Lived For the Moment”, in New York Daily News, retrieved 18 Oct 2009Synonyms: knee-slapper
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of knee-slapper.
More synonyms by meaning
nouna joke that seems extremely funny
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Translations
Dutch dijenkletser
- dijenkletserparticularly humorous joke
Finnish hulvaton vitsi
- hulvaton vitsiparticularly humorous joke
French blague désopilante, blague à se tordre de rire
- blague désopilanteparticularly humorous joke
- blague à se tordre de rireparticularly humorous joke
German Schenkelklopfer
- Schenkelklopferparticularly humorous joke
Cite this entry
thigh-slapper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thigh-slapper
“thigh-slapper.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thigh-slapper. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “thigh-slapper,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/thigh-slapper.
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