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Noun: in-joke  'in'jowk or 'in,jowk
  1. A joke that is appreciated only by members of some particular group of people
    "The programmers shared an in-joke about debugging that puzzled everyone else"

Derived forms: in-jokes

Type of: gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh

Encyclopedia: In-joke