| 单词 | laugh meter |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaugh meter laugh meter n. any of various devices used to measure or indicate the volume (or another quality) of laughter, and hence to gauge the humour of a performance, joke, etc.; also figurative; cf. laugh-o-meter n. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > [noun] > device for measuring laughter laugh-o-meter1907 laugh meter1910 1910 N.-Y. Tribune 25 Sept. v. 7/5 (advt.) The laugh meter rings the bell on every line. 1919 Olean (N.Y.) Evening Herald 2 June 4/3 (advt.) Taylor Holmes will make your laugh meter register to its capacity in ‘Taxi’. 1960 Spectator 28 Oct. 655/3 Managers whose henchmen have sat through countless performances..with stop-watches and laugh-meters. 2007 J. Lipton Inside Inside vii. 150 They'd discovered that the heart monitor beeping over his head could function as a laugh meter, and, in a lively competition, were taking turns telling jokes to the agonized patient. < as lemmas |
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