laugh line

laugh line
noun
1. a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
• Syn: ↑crow's foot, ↑crow's feet
• Hypernyms: ↑wrinkle, ↑furrow, ↑crease, ↑crinkle, ↑seam, ↑line
2. the point of a joke or humorous story
• Syn: ↑punch line, ↑gag line, ↑tag line
• Hypernyms: ↑line
• Part Holonyms: ↑joke, ↑gag, ↑laugh, ↑jest, ↑jape

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Informal.
crow's-foot (def. 1).
[1925-30]

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laugh line,
1. a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye supposedly formed from habitual smiling or laughing: »

We sat next to Ralph Brasco, a rangy man with plenty of laugh lines around his eyes (New Yorker).

2. a brief quip or joke; one-liner: »

One of the laugh lines floating around the London headquarters of Amoco (one of the toughest bargainers) is: “Now we know where the Middle East guys learned their trading techniques—from the British (New Scientist).


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