: a wholesome joke of the type said to be told by fathers with a punchline that is often an obvious or predictable pun or play on words and usually judged to be endearingly corny or unfunny He's seen the annual event grow from an Austin oddity to a national event and watched dad jokes , of which puns are the most obvious example, take hold in the millennial consciousness; a dad-joke -devoted Reddit board boasts more than 250,000 members. — Peter Rubin The dad jokes really started pouring in during the later years of Obama's presidency, when the annual turkey pardoning became fertile grounds for embarrassing the now teenage Malia and Sasha. And what better way to do that than with some corny puns about turkeys named Mac and Cheese? — Mashable