Definition

1. 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

1. an easy victory
2. a person who is laughing or who laughs easily