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thigh-slappers

noun

plural of thigh-slapper
as in drolleries

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  1. screams
  2. riots
  3. practical jokes
  4. ribs
  5. knee-slappers
  6. witticisms
  7. gags
  8. laughs
Noun
  • The screams at a Michigan bar in New York invoked Underwood’s name.
    — Joe Rexrode, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
  • While the Silo 17 citizens are getting murdered en masse, Troy has the image switched to a thermal map and has the audio cut off, so that the people look like colored blobs — and so their screams go unheard.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 4 Sep. 2026
Definition of screams
Noun
  • Food price spikes can also exacerbate grievances and lead to riots that destabilize governments; anger over hunger, for example, set the conditions for the Arab Spring protests.
    — Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026
  • In addition, the Iranian government has suppressed anti-government riots and protests with deadly force and arbitrary arrests and detention, according to human rights observers.
    — Louis Casiano, FOXNews.com, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of riots
Noun
  • To make their mission abroad bearable, the doctors, nurses, administrators and soldiers of the Korean War turned to humor, especially practical jokes.
    — Rachel Flynn, PEOPLE, 31 Aug. 2026
  • In order to make their kissing scenes even more awkward, the late Larry Hagman would play practical jokes on his Dallas costar Linda Gray.
    — Brianna Zigler, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Aug. 2026
Definition of practical jokes
Noun
  • Barbecue ribs and bulgogi were held below proper hot holding temperature.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Consumers who indirectly purchased raw pork bacon or fresh or frozen pork made from bellies, loins, shoulders, ribs or pork chops from one of the companies may be eligible for a cash payment.
    — Gabe Hauari, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2026
Definition of ribs
Noun
  • 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
Definition of knee-slappers
Noun
  • The result is an incredible repository of vexations, bafflements, witticisms, and brilliancies.
    — Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 1 June 2026
  • The initial experience of Shakespeare’s meter leads to a world of discovery of a man who quite literally changed the world with witticisms and insight and has shaped every corner of humanity since the 16th century.
    — David John Chávez, Mercury News, 4 Feb. 2026
Definition of witticisms
Noun
  • Cox admits that leaning into horror gags proved to be a challenge, given the franchise’s family-friendly nature.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Sep. 2026
  • Whips and gags were the order of the day; those moments would be intercut with live footage shot in Hollywood’s Cathouse.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 15 Sep. 2026
Definition of gags
Noun
  • Again, the things of life, the ups and downs, the laughs and the tears — this is Mike Leigh at his most humane and heartwarming in a film that seems to be about nothing really, but the universal truth of it all is about everything.
    — Pete Hammond, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2026
  • Having a bunch of huge favorites means one of them is about to see its entire hopeful offseason culminate in immediate disaster as everyone points and laughs.
    — Jason Kirk, New York Times, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of laughs
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