Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Ultimate success or victory, achieved after an apparent failure or loss: After all was said and done, our competitors had the last laugh: they cornered the market.
WordNet 3.0
- n. ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying `he laughs best who laughs last')
Examples
““But I guess Ms. Virginia would appreciate one last laugh from you heffas!””
“He saw you would make a bull-leaper, and he thought it would keep the last laugh for him. ”
“I must say, dear Aunt Peg, the last laugh was literally ON us.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘last laugh’.
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the one-two punch
short (mostly two-word) collocations, pat phrases, idioms &c. that I like
merry chase, glancing blow, beast mode, feedback loop, false flag, dear god, nothing human, deflector shield, hatchet job, not cricket, bang on, a tinker's damn and 246 more...
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Ultimates
ultimate, penultimate, The Ultimates, Ultimate Frisbee, Ultimate, Ultimate!, preantepenultimate, antepenultimate, Ultimate Fighting..., ultimate cause, somersaultimate, resultimate and 25 more...
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A Myriad of Irii
Iris varieties.
abbondanza, abiqua falls, about town, above the clouds, acadian miss, acapulco gold, act of kindness, adoregon, aegean wind, afternoon in rio, aggressively forward, agua fresca and 721 more...
Tweets
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