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Meanings of thigh-slapper in English

A joke that seems extremely funny.

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Examples for "scream"
Examples for "scream"
1
A second scream came, piteous, all hope gone, choking sobs followed it.
Micah & Strange Candy
2
I want to hear him scream, he said, looking at me, deadpan.
The last four days of Paddy Buckley
3
Hours would I kneel in the dark, repeating in a whispered scream:
Paul Kelver
4
She wanted to rail and scream at the unfairness of the situation.
The spurned viscountess
5
For the second time that day, Jessy wanted to scream in frustration.
Nightwalker
1
Several people were stabbed before French riot police restored order, officials said.
The Irish Times
2
Police riot squads were used and several mounted police charges were made.
The Guardian
3
Don't start no riot.' That ain't really what he want to say.
The Guardian
4
Military personnel, riot police and water cannon have arrived at the scene.
Radio NZ
5
Twelve civilians and four soldiers died in the riot; scores were injured.
A. lincoln: a biography
1
It will come full of new features and attempts to wow consumers.
News.com.au
2
This has been my week: Oh, wow: I should write about that.
Wired
3
And I remember floating there and thinking, wow, that was really beautiful.
Wired
4
Richard Li's financial alchemy fails to wow Imagine China chooses all-out disobedience.
Reuters
5
If the player does nothing wrong but it's still possible -wow!
The Guardian
1
I've seen 'em scuttle right up a hork tree after a howler.
Mech
2
The calamity howler is found in the midst of peace and plenty.
Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep
3
If they just went ahead as planned, would anyone notice their howler?
The Guardian
4
It is the mycetes, or ursine howler-thelargest monkey of South America.
The Western World / Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural H...
5
It was a howler, probably the Mycetes stramineus of Geoffroy St. Hilaire.
The Naturalist on the River Amazons
1
Is this one okay? Lisa's smile quickly became a convulsive belly laugh.
Creepers
2
The line induces a four-way belly laugh, and they are some bellies.
The Guardian
3
She is like therapy, art and a big belly laugh in one.
The Guardian
4
The 16th seed saw little to belly laugh about in that four-set run.
The Irish Times
5
This was a rumbling belly laugh, like a peal of thunder.
A kiss of shadows
1
A sidesplitter, right off your head. Again, Slidell turned to me.
Devil Bones
Usage of thigh-slapper in English
1
That is one thigh-slapper of a show.
Reuters
2
I only came to the National Ploughing Championships to see the Austrian thigh-slappers.
The Irish Times
3
A relic of coming up in the era she did, when it might have been expected she offer thigh-slappers about a visually distinctive body?
The Guardian
4
"Not real thigh-slappers like Gerald Fitzgerald."
The burglar who traded ted williams
5
"That would be... complicated, but quite manageable." This thigh-slapper came straight from my firm's equivalent of a cunning marketing script.
Year Zero