A joke with a grimly morbid tone or point; a nasty sort of jape: Wouldn't it be a sick joke if I got something without understanding the financial underpinnings(1959+)
Idioms and Phrases with sick joke
sick joke
An anecdote intended to be humorous but actually in very bad taste, as in His stories turn out to be sick jokes about people who are handicapped in some way. [ ; mid-1900s ]