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These Patriotic Puns Are Perfect For The 4th Of July

Because baby, you really are a firework.

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The Fourth of July is a time to toast American independence, spend the day with the fam, and enjoy all of the carbs. It’s also a ripe time to have fun with some puns. Whether you have a dad joke expert in your life or love a little word play yourself, you can get all kinds of funny with these Fourth of July puns.

The key is to think about the most well-known Independence Day terms, from liberty to freedom, fireworks to revolution. From there you can build all kinds of silly sayings your family will love or give you the hard side-eye for. (For example, Let’s celebrate the “red, wine, and blue!”) There are Independence Day tropes to work with, you just have to get a little creative. And when in doubt, personalize your puns, for instance: “Look at my little Yankee Doodle Mandy.”

And if you want to share your eye-roll-inducing puns with your larger social media following, by all means, go ahead and post your pun-believably brilliant turns of phrase. Even if they’re pun-ishingly bad or use improper pun-ctuation, the biggest pun-haters have got to give you props for your pun-chlines. It’s the American way.

Historic puns for July Fourth

Gotta give props to the Founding Fathers; they certainly gave us plenty of pun fodder when it comes to the Fourth of July.

  • Four score and seven beers ago
  • Give me li-beer-ty or give me death
  • Party like a patriot
  • “We must all hang together or assuredly we shall all hang separately.” — Benjamin Franklin
  • This day is revolting
  • Life, liber-tea, and the pursuit of happiness
  • "You're welcome."— George Washington
  • Stay fly, it's the 4th of July!
  • More like George Washing-FUN (This also works for Thomas Jeffer-FUN, Alexander Hamil-FUN, James Madi-FUN, even Benjamin Frank-FUN if you really stretch it. Just pick your favorite Founding Father...)
  • Wheeeee the people
  • The shots heard round the world
  • Yeah, the Boston Tea Party was great, but I’ll stick to a Long Island Ice Tea at this party
  • Party like it’s 1776!

Fourth of July food puns

Food is a major part of the Independence Day holiday. Naturally, you might want to mix in a little cookout-related copy to amp up your pun-predictably hilarious puns.

  • Red, White, and Brew
  • Happy Fork of July
  • Let us relish Independence Day
  • Lettuce celebrate freedom
  • May the fork be with you
  • Serving big ol’ glasses of Liber-tea
  • Red, white, and barbecue
  • Hot dog! I love the Fourth of July
  • Living the AmeriCONE dream 🍦
  • (Hot) Dog bless America
  • Give me liberty or give me death by chocolate
  • A meal fit for Benjamin FRANKlin
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Fireworks-focused Fourth of July puns

With any luck you’ll be watching the rockets' red glare in the night sky on the 4th (or shooting some off yourself.) Which means you’ll need some witty repartee to go with them.

  • I guess I have a flare for the dramatic
  • These fireworks red, white and blue me away
  • Come on baby, light my fire
  • We didn't start the fireworks
  • I’ve got a flare for fireworks
  • Having a blast watching the fireworks
  • Keep calm and sparkle on
  • Can a firework lose its job? Yes, after you’ve fired them
  • My ins-pyro-tion!
  • You can say that you’re my little firecracker!
  • Fireworks make me wanna fire-twerk
  • Not to get pyro-technical, but I love fireworks
  • These fireworks are lit

Patriotic 4th of July puns

Get weird with the heavy patriotic vibes this 4th by playing with your wording. Might as well. Free speech is one of our most important rights.

  • May the Fourth be with you
  • You’re my Independence bae
  • Let’s Indepen-dance!
  • This party is booming
  • Party in the U.S.Yay!
  • Since it’s the Fourth of July, let’s indepen-dance the night away!
  • Land of the free, home of the rave
  • This year’s party was a star-spangled banger
  • I’m an AmeriCAN not AmeriCAN’T
  • I’m a Liberty Belle
  • Spill the liber-tea, sis
  • Forever in peace may you rave

These punny Fourth of July Puns will make you laugh and roll your eyes. But don’t forget to post them to your social media along with all of your festive Fourth of July photos you’ll be sharing. Enjoy and use that American freedom of speech to let your puns fly high in the sky like a firework.

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