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for laughs

for laughs is the alternative form of for a laugh.

Meaning of for a laugh

Prepositional phrase

  1. (UK, informal) For no reason other than to be amusing.

Questions about for laughs

What is for laughs the alternative form of?
For laughs is the alternative form of for a laugh.

Words near for laughs in the dictionary

  1. for lack of trying
  2. for land's sake
  3. for land's sake alive
  4. for land's sakes
  5. for land's sakes alive
  6. for laughs
  7. for life
  8. for long
  9. for loop
  10. for loops
  11. for love nor money

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Adapted from Wiktionary: for laughs (page history and authors); for a laugh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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