laugher
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Definition
- Noun:
- An easy victory: A contest or competition that is won very easily and decisively.
- A person who is laughing or who laughs easily: An individual who is engaged in laughter or who has a tendency to laugh frequently.
Usage Examples
Noun (an easy victory):
- The championship game was a laugher, with the home team winning by forty points.
- After the first round, the election was a laugher for the incumbent mayor.
Noun (a person who laughs):
- He's such a happy laugher; his joy is contagious.
- The comedian scanned the audience, looking for the biggest laughers in the crowd.
Advanced Usage
- "to be a laugher": to be a situation or event that is hilariously funny or an easy win.
- The final score was 10-0; it was a total laugher from the start.
Variants and Related Words
- Laugh (verb/noun): The action or sound of laughing.
- Her laugh filled the room with warmth.
- Laughable (adj): So ridiculous as to be amusing.
- The proposal was so poorly researched it was laughable.
Synonyms
- For "an easy victory": Rout, walkover, cakewalk, blowout.
- For "a person who laughs": Chuckler, giggler.
Related Phrases
- "Have the last laugh": To finally succeed or be proven right after earlier difficulties or doubt.
- They doubted her idea, but she had the last laugh when it became a huge success.
- "Laugh all the way to the bank": To make a lot of money easily, especially when others thought you would fail.
- The critics hated his novel, but he's laughing all the way to the bank.
Related Idioms
- "No laughing matter": Something serious that should not be joked about.
- The safety violations are no laughing matter.
- "Laugh in someone's face": To show open contempt or disrespect for someone by laughing at them.
- When I suggested a truce, he just laughed in my face.
Noun
- an easy victory
- a person who is laughing or who laughs easily