ALL meanings of shaggy dog story
shag·gy dog sto·ry
S s - noun shaggy dog story a funny story, traditionally about a talking dog, that, after an often long and involved narration of unimportant incidents, has an absurd or irrelevant punch line. 1
- noun shaggy dog story a long rambling joke ending in a deliberate anticlimax, such as a pointless punch line 0