Definitions for laugh

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laugh laugh

Spelling: [laf, lahf]

IPA: /læf, lɑf/

Laugh is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in laugh (aghlu).

Definitions for laugh

noun

1. the act or sound of laughing; laughter.
2. an expression of mirth, derision, etc., by laughing.
3. Informal. something that provokes laughter, amusement, or ridicule:
4. laughs, Informal. fun; amusement.

Idioms

1. have the last laugh, to prove ultimately successful after a seeming defeat or loss:
2. laugh it up, to laugh or joke in a hearty way:
3. laugh out of court, to dismiss or depreciate by means of ridicule; totally scorn:
4. laugh out of the other side of one's mouth, to undergo a chastening reversal, as of glee or satisfaction that is premature; be ultimately chagrined, punished, etc.; cry: Also, laugh on the wrong side of one's mouth/face.
5. laugh up one's sleeve. sleeve (def 7).

Verb phrases

1. laugh at, to make fun of; deride; ridicule: to be scornful of; reject: to find sympathetic amusement in; regard with humor:
2. laugh off, to dismiss as ridiculous, trivial, or hollow:

verb (used with object)

1. to drive, put, bring, etc., by or with laughter (often followed by out, away, down, etc.):
2. to utter with laughter:

verb (used without object)

1. to express mirth, pleasure, derision, or nervousness with an audible, vocal expulsion of air from the lungs that can range from a loud burst of sound to a series of quiet chuckles and is usually accompanied by characteristic facial and bodily movements.
2. to experience the emotion so expressed:
3. to produce a sound resembling human laughter:

Origin of laugh

before 900; Middle English laughen, Old English hlæh(h)an (Anglian); cognate with Dutch, German lachen, Old Norse hlǣja, Gothic hlahjan

Examples for laugh

We love to laugh at Kim and Company because it distracts our souls from the horrific reality of their hermetic regime.

A note of exultation in his laugh, like that in a blackbird's call, alone proclaimed it.

First we laugh, then we begin to wonder why the man was so distracted that he didn't notice he'd taken the doorknob with him.

Lanning, if I had you at my back I could laugh at the law the rest of our lives!

"They won't go back without me, I reckon," he added, with a laugh.

Hopefully, she got as much of a laugh out of it as the rest of the world has.

I watch every episode alone on my couch and I just sit there and laugh, and laugh.

Grace's laugh sounded a trifle shaky, but it was a laugh nevertheless.

Why, man, if we've been beyond the law up to this time, we can laugh at the law now.

Ramone, who turned to religion while trying to kick drugs, would probably approve (and laugh a little, too).