joke
When someone makes or cracks a joke, they say something in order to make people laugh.
She would make jokes about her appearance.
We stayed up for hours, laughing and cracking jokes.
A joke is also a clever or funny story that you repeat in order to make people laugh. When joke has this meaning, you say that someone tells a joke.
Tell Uncle Henry the joke you told us.
A joke is also something that is done to make someone appear foolish. When joke has this meaning, you say that someone plays a joke on someone else.
They're playing a joke on you.
Be careful
Don't say that someone ‘says a joke’ or ‘does a joke’.
Don't say that someone ‘says a joke’ or ‘does a joke’.