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horse laugh

British  

noun

  1. a coarse, mocking, or raucous laugh; guffaw

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Jim also gets a special prize for the best horse laugh of the night for declaring after Mitt had conceded that: "Now the president is going to say a few words."

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2012

For these hopefuls, eager to seize any advantage in their Party's defeat, James A. Farley had only a horse laugh.

From Time Magazine Archive

With his horse laugh and his wizardry at impressions, he rose to eminence as the little guy who can take charge.

From Time Magazine Archive

For 18 years, roly-poly George E. Allen bobbed around Washington like a pneumatic rubber horse; everybody liked to ride him and he was always good for a horse laugh.

From Time Magazine Archive

Blatch burst into a great horse laugh and slapped his thigh.

From Judith of the Cumberlands by MacGowan, Alice

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