noun phrase
An amusing or hilarious person or thing; a HOOT: The Gossages were a stitch, playing it very loose/ What a stitch/ Calling this tarty turn an ''interpretation'' really is a stitch
[1968+; fr the expression in stitches, ''laughing uncontrollably,'' perhaps fr the notion of laughing so much that it gives one stitches, ''sudden sharp pains,'' found by 1601 in Shakespeare]
