Words similar to in-joke

Example sentences for: in-joke

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The scene I've just described is an exemplary Tom Stoppard moment: A literary in-joke that turns on the accidental, and wholly conjectural, collision of two historical figures.
When is an in-joke too in to run?
(His head was also separated from his body for shipping—a philosopher's in-joke, since Descartes introduced the mind/ body split into Western philosophy.)
A spit-and-polish cop waves the procession onward (the in-joke here is that it now seems headed toward the CNN building four blocks from the Capitol).
Mr Rivers has emphasized to me that the word was not then used in a disparaging way, but more as a kind of professional in-joke, with about the same force as the now universal punter client, customer, part of the verbal comaraderie of a lively band of young workers.