- 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.
- to experience the emotion so expressed: He laughed inwardly at the scene.
- to produce a sound resembling human laughter: A coyote laughed in the dark.
- to drive, put, bring, etc., by or with laughter (often followed by out, away, down, etc.): They laughed him out of town. We laughed away our troubles.
- to utter with laughter: He laughed his consent.
- the act or sound of laughing; laughter.
- an expression of mirth, derision, etc., by laughing.
- something that provokes laughter, amusement, or ridicule: After all the advance publicity, the prizefight turned out to be a laugh.
- fun; amusement.
- laugh at,
- to make fun of; deride; ridicule: They were laughing at him, not along with him.
- to be scornful of; reject: They stopped laughing at the unusual theory when it was found to be predictive.
- to find sympathetic amusement in; regard with humor: We can learn to laugh a little at even our most serious foibles.
- to dismiss as ridiculous, trivial, or hollow: He had received threats but laughed them off as the work of a crank.
- to prove ultimately successful after a seeming defeat or loss: She smiled slyly, because she knew she would yet have the last laugh on them.
- to laugh or joke in a hearty way: He was laughing it up with his friends.
- to dismiss or depreciate by means of ridicule; totally scorn: His violent protests were laughed out of court by the others.
- to undergo a chastening reversal, as of glee or satisfaction that is premature; be ultimately chagrined, punished, etc.; cry: She's proud of her promotion, but she'll laugh out of the other side of her mouth when the work piles up.
- sleeve (def. 9).
- to express or manifest emotion, esp mirth or amusement, typically by expelling air from the lungs in short bursts to produce an inarticulate voiced noise, with the mouth open
- (esp of certain mammals or birds) to make a noise resembling a laugh
- to utter or express with laughter
- to bring or force (someone, esp oneself) into a certain condition by laughter
- to make fun (of); jeer (at)
- to read or discuss something with laughter
- I don't believe you for a moment
- to be unashamedly pleased at making a lot of money
- to show open contempt or defiance towards a person
- to laugh loudly and coarsely
- to laugh or have grounds for amusement, self-satisfaction, etc, secretly
- to show sudden disappointment or shame after appearing cheerful or confident
- to be in a favourable situation
- the act or an instance of laughing
- a manner of laughter
- a person or thing that causes laughter
- the final success in an argument, situation, etc, after previous defeat
