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laugh line

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Noun1.laugh line - a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes
crinkle, wrinkle, furrow, crease, seam, line - a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface; "his face has many lines"; "ironing gets rid of most wrinkles"
2.laugh line - the point of a joke or humorous story
gag, jape, jest, joke, laugh - a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"
line - text consisting of a row of words written across a page or computer screen; "the letter consisted of three short lines"; "there are six lines in every stanza"

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Councilman Jack Weiss was one of those who joined with Chick last week in calling for the audit and he thought he had a sure laugh line.
It's a mantra that can be delivered half in jest, as a laugh line on the stump.
At technology conferences, it is the devil, or the guaranteed laugh line.
 
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