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Synonyms
Examples of belly laugh in a Sentence
He has an infectious belly laugh.
The show provided lots of belly laughs.
Recent Examples on the Web
Morrison misses his late partner’s gigantic belly laugh that would engulf everything in its orbit.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024
Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.
—Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Just try your best to separate big belly laughs from bites of food, and save the call to mom for when you’re entirely finished eating.
—Julia Sullivan, SELF, 9 July 2024
Harris asks, surrendering to one of her famous belly laughs.
—Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1916, in the meaning defined above
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“Belly laugh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belly%20laugh. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.
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