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LAUREL AND HARDY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laurel and Hardy mean? 

LAUREL AND HARDY (noun)
  The noun LAUREL AND HARDY has 1 sense:

1. United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films togetherplay

  Familiarity information: LAUREL AND HARDY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


LAUREL AND HARDY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Instance hypernyms:

duet; duette; duo (two performers or singers who perform together)

Meronyms (members of "Laurel and Hardy"):

Hardy; Oliver Hardy (United States slapstick comedian who played the pompous and overbearing member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1892-1957))

Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel; Laurel; Stan Laurel (United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965))


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