crack a joke

to tell a joke. She's never serious. She's always cracking jokes. Every time Tom cracked a joke, his buddies broke up laughing.

crack a joke

Make a joke, say something humorous, as in You can count on Grandpa to crack a joke on every occasion. This expression uses the verb to crack in the now obsolete sense of "briskly pronounce" or "boast." [Early 1700s]

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Iesha	-	African American (Modern)
Chlodovech	-	Ancient Germanic
Karrie	KER-ee, KAR-ee	English
Ad	AHT	Dutch, Limburgish
Thekla	-	German (Rare), Greek (Rare), Late Greek
Voitto	VOYT-to	Finnish