belly laugh

noun

a deep, loud, hearty laugh.

Origin:
1920–25

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belly laugh

—n
	a loud deep hearty laugh

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Slang Dictionary

belly laugh definition

n.
a loud, deep, uninhibited laugh. : I don't want to hear giggles when I tell a joke. I want long belly laughs.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Example sentences

Get in some exercise while having a good old-fashioned belly laugh with some of your new best friends.

People come up to shake his hand, share a belly laugh, suggest an idea for a story.

Then he suddenly straightened up, his normal color seemed to return and he broke out in a great big belly laugh.

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"We are a nation that has always gone in for the loud laugh, the wow, the yak, the belly laugh, and the dozen other labels for the roll-'em-in-the-aisles gagerissimo. This is the kind of laugh that delights actors, directors, and producers, but dismays writers of comedy because it is the laugh that often dies in the lobby. The appreciative smile, the chuckle, the soundless mirth, so important to the success of comedy, cannot be understood unless one sits among the audience and feels the warmth created by the quality of laughter that the audience takes home with it."

-James Thurber