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laugh like a drain

laugh like a drain verb: to laugh with a loud, coarse sound.

Verb

laugh like a drain (third-person singular simple present laughs like a drain, present participle laughing like a drain, simple past and past participle laughed like a drain)

  1. (UK, simile) To laugh with a loud, coarse sound
    • Charles laughs like a drain and empties his champagne glass. “How about some fruit juice and muesli, pumpkin?”2007, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life

Forms of laugh like a drain

third-person singular presentlaughs like a drain
present participlelaughing like a drain
past participlelaughed like a drain
pastlaughed like a drain

Questions about laugh like a drain

What does laugh like a drain mean?
Laugh like a drain means to laugh with a loud, coarse sound.
What part of speech is laugh like a drain?
Laugh like a drain is a verb.
What is the past tense of laugh like a drain?
The past tense of laugh like a drain is laughed like a drain.

Words near laugh like a drain in the dictionary

  1. laugh before breakfast, cry before supper
  2. laugh die me
  3. laugh down
  4. laugh in one's sleeve
  5. laugh in someone's face
  6. laugh like a drain
  7. laugh like a hyena
  8. laugh line
  9. laugh lines
  10. laugh machine
  11. laugh machines

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