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Recent Examples of thigh-slapper
Despite the wild characters and imaginative leaps, the humor is laidback, pleasant, and effortless, more likely to elicit warm smiles than thigh-slappers.
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Frank Rizzo, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
Frank Rizzo, Variety, 23 Dec. 2024
Recent Examples of Synonyms for thigh-slapper
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Suddenly, a woman is yanked through a mirror — a moment punctuated by the funniest shriek this side of the Wilhem scream — and the plot is pulled into the ’80s: a critical framing shift that’s never once made explicit.Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
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Break out three giant claps, a dazzling smile and a deafening scream.Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times, 28 Dec. 2024
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The constant attention, however, soon became overwhelming for the family, with some fans taking things too far with practical jokes related to the show.Gil Macias, People.com, 3 Jan. 2025
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And while there is a possibility of some severe storms in the state, there could be a chance that Mother Nature is pulling a practical joke.Joyce Orlando, The Tennessean, 29 Mar. 2024
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Notably, in 2021, Biden appeared on the show during the first 100 days of his administration, discussing the Covid pandemic and the still-fresh Jan. 6 Capitol riots.Jack Dunn, Variety, 14 Jan. 2025
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The first was related to Trump's attempts to overturn the 2020 election results — including his actions leading up to the deadly Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot — and the second case addressed his handling of classified White House documents that were retrieved from Mar-a-Lago.Kyler Alvord, People.com, 14 Jan. 2025
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David Ornstein has been activated and all of The Athletic’s club reporters are on the case as your team makes that shrewd addition/flamboyantly overpays for a panic buy/makes that weird loan signing to keep an agent sweet.Nick Miller, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
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As Kinch went to retrieve it, Williams felt panic grip his chest.Joshua Kaplan, ProPublica, 4 Jan. 2025
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On dinner tables frequented by Brussels sprouts, meatloaf is the well-meaning uncle whose knee-slappers are beloved, but not particularly hip.Betsy Cribb Watson, Southern Living, 7 Jan. 2025
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This 1940s knee-slapper on deck from Lakewood Theatre Company really isn’t so concerned with rooting out the murderer.oregonlive, oregonlive, 5 Sep. 2023
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Some prank culture now is short-attention-span theater.Andrew R. Chow, TIME, 16 Jan. 2025
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Dylan's vision was a kind of variety show gone wild, packing the evening with songs, costumes, poetry, and pranks, much of it caught on film.Debby Wolfinsohn, EW.com, 11 Jan. 2025
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The scrappy theatrical love letter to this wild caper has been getting raves on the West End for two years.Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 8 Jan. 2025
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Powell scooped up a best actor Globe nod for the stranger-than-fiction crime caper, but his luck ran out when SAG nominations rolled around.Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 8 Jan. 2025
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“Thigh-slapper.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/thigh-slapper. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.
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