punchlinenoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpʌntʃ.laɪn/us/ˈpʌntʃ.laɪn/the last part of a story or a joke that explains the meaning of what has happened previously or makes it funny
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Humour & humorous
- a bundle of laughs idiom
- amusing
- blackly
- bring
- bundle
- crack
- don't make me laugh! idiom
- funny ha-ha or funny peculiar? idiom
- gallows humour
- jocular
- jokester
- josh
- killing
- lambent
- laugh
- sarcasm
- tickle
- witty
- wordplay
- you've got to laugh idiom
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