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