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laugh line

noun

, Informal.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of laugh line1

First recorded in 1925–30

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Example Sentences

He criticized Obama for riding in a “big gas guzzler” of a plane before an audience that treats climate change as a laugh line.

Not shy about going for the laugh line, she is also deadly serious when the discourse calls for it.

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