LAUGH LINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laugh line mean? 

• LAUGH LINE (noun)
  The noun LAUGH LINE has 2 senses:

1. a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes

2. the point of a joke or humorous story

  Familiarity information: LAUGH LINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUGH LINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes

Synonyms:

crow's feet; crow's foot; laugh line

Hypernyms ("laugh line" is a kind of...):

crease; crinkle; furrow; line; seam; wrinkle (a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The point of a joke or humorous story

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

gag line; laugh line; punch line; tag line

Hypernyms ("laugh line" is a kind of...):

line (text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen)

Holonyms ("laugh line" is a part of...):

gag; jape; jest; joke; laugh (a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter)