Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun shaggy_dog_story

1 sense of shaggy dog story

Sense 1
shaggy dog story -- (a long rambling joke whose humor derives from its pointlessness)
       => joke, gag, laugh, jest, jape -- (a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point")