Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb take_a_joke

1 sense of take a joke

Sense 1
take a joke -- (listen to a joke at one's own expense; "Can't you take a joke?")
       => digest, endure, stick out, stomach, bear, stand, tolerate, support, brook, abide, suffer, put up -- (put up with something or somebody unpleasant; "I cannot bear his constant criticism"; "The new secretary had to endure a lot of unprofessional remarks"; "he learned to tolerate the heat"; "She stuck out two years in a miserable marriage")