Significats de become the laughingstock en anglès

So whither Napster, now that it has become the laughingstock of downloading?

I should become the laughingstock of Scotland Yard.'

Yet if, by any chance, I proved later innocent of the charge, then he would become the laughingstock of the army.

The incident of the dust bin brought on them open ridicule; they became the laughingstock of Shrewsbury.

Did these attestations, although many emanated from persons of distinction, from the Chevalier Folard, for example, prevent the convulsionists from becoming the laughingstock of Europe?

"Not really." She didn't feel like telling her mother that she had become the laughingstock of Walnut Avenue Middle School.