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- noun An action associated with
laughter .
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Examples
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Violence against women: knee-slapping right-wing "humour."
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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It's not just that he introduces his music and comments on it with a knee-slapping mock-tentative delivery that establishes him hands-down as the 21st-century Jack Benny.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Genius Jazz Violinist Aaron Weinstein Meets Brilliant Jazz Singer Christine Ebersole in Dual Birdland Triumph David Finkle 2011
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Most resemble mathematical formulas: clever, perhaps, but hardly occasion for knee-slapping.
Punditry 2009
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Then, a full-out knee-slapping laugh came out of me, catapulting me back to a time before I knew about self control.
Sunny Gessy Alvarez 2012
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Eric Edward Fishboy, Texas native and Fishboy frontman, took a few minutes away from his busy schedule of writing quirky, knee-slapping numbers to remember one of his favorite underrated bands from the Lone Star State.
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Hillary is willing to disenfranchise ALL othre VOTES across Amreica for her own giddy - knee-slapping - over-zealous - self righteous quest to be the president.
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That's not exactly a philosophy that lends itself to knee-slapping hilarity.
Jim David: Kathy Griffin, and Why Conservatives Aren't Funny 2010
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That's not exactly a philosophy that lends itself to knee-slapping hilarity.
Jim David: Kathy Griffin, and Why Conservatives Aren't Funny 2010
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But readers will encounter tidbits of genuine information amid the knee-slapping.
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The knee-slapping Haggling Sequence is not to be missed, but this critic wonders if the I'm not gonna pay a lot for this President!
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