laugh line

noun

Informal.

1. crow's-foot.

Word History and Origins

Origin of laugh line¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

By the time he says it, it’s a laugh line.

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Unless, of course, you’re a stage family, overrun with “characters” who don’t so much speak as deliver laugh lines and dispense nuggets of moral wisdom.

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It gives Crystal one of his rare openings for a laugh line, “Say hi to your shaman, wish him a happy 1969 for me.”

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The first laugh line of this National League Division Series came on Friday afternoon, when San Diego Padres manager Mike Shildt was asked how his club planned to attack Shohei Ohtani.

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The gags and laugh lines are middling at best and the situation could hardly be called a masterpiece of farcical construction.

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