the butt of the joke

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the butt of the joke

Someone or something at whose expense an insulting or mocking joke is made. I like hanging out with my brother and his friends, even though he likes to make me the butt of his jokes. Due to their disastrous advertising campaign last month, the company has been the butt of many jokes on the Internet lately.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lula	LOO-lə	English
Dipak	-	Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati, Punjabi, Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Nepali
Matthias	mah-TEE-ahs (German), mə-THIE-əs (English)	Greek, German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, French, Dutch, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Zorka	-	Czech, Slovak, Croatian, Serbian, Slovene, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Heber (2)	HEE-bər (English)	Biblical
Eloisa	e-lo-EE-zah	Italian