Definition of a laugh

a laugh    

noun - uncountable

• something funny.

                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "Episode 5", Little Britain (TV, 2003), Season 1 Episode 5 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body that are the instinctive expressions of lively amusement and sometimes also of derision: Salinas Foundation Repair Contractor.

  • See more words with the same meaning: funny.

  Last edited on Nov 04 2025. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Oct 03 2009.

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Other terms relating to 'funny':
kill	Definitions include: high-grade marijuana.
slay	Definitions include: to have sex (with).
trip	Definitions include: to take LSD.
zany	Definitions include: comical, wacky.
funny haha	Definitions include: amusing, as opposed to other definitions of the word "funny", such as strange.
laugh	Definitions include: something funny.
dead	Definitions include: to consume or use up.
good one	Definitions include: something well done.
hoot	Definitions include: something (or someone) extremely funny.
classic	Definitions include: very good; excellent.
rich	Definitions include: funny.
too much	Definitions include: extremely funny.

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Other terms relating to 'a':
a	Definitions include: amphetamine.
A-1	Definitions include: the best.
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.	Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting.
a bit much	Definitions include: excessive.
a bit of how's your father	Definitions include: sexual activity.
a boat	Definitions include: In the West/Central Canadian accent, "about" is pronounced somewhere between "aboot" and "a boat".
a couple beers short of a six-pack	Definitions include: a little crazy
a couple three	Definitions include: an unspecified small number.
act a fool	Definitions include: to play around.
a dime a dozen	Definitions include: very common.
a dog with two d*cks	Definitions include: a mythical creature who is extremely happy or fortunate.
a dollar three eighty	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
a dollar three eightyfive	Definitions include: a non-specified price.
adopt a tree	Definitions include: to collide with a tree.
a face that only a mother could love	Definitions include: an ugly face.
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Other terms relating to 'laugh':
die laughing	Definitions include: to laugh extremely hard.
FOCLOL	Definitions include: acronym for "falling off chair, laughing out loud".
FOCROFLOL	Definitions include: acronym for "falling off chair, rolling on floor, laughing out loud".
FOTFL	Definitions include: rolling on the floor laughing
GNL	Definitions include: acronym for "got a nigga laughing".
laugh	Definitions include: something funny.
laugh at the ground	Definitions include: to vomit.
laugh at the toilet	Definitions include: verb. to vomit.
laughing gas	Definitions include: nitrous oxide.
laugh off	Definitions include: to dismiss emotionally, with laughter.
laugh (one's) *ss off	Definitions include: to laugh very hard.
laugh out of	Definitions include: to laugh at a person or group, making them so embarrassed that they leave.
LEL	Definitions include: "LOL" with the O replaced with an E.
liquid laugh	Definitions include: to vomit.
LMAO	Definitions include: acronym for "laughing my ass off."
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