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Definition of "horselaugh" [horse•laugh]

  • Informal A loud coarse laugh; a guffaw. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "horselaugh" in a sentence
  • "It was hard to suppress a horselaugh at the weekend's news that Ralph Nader and Cornel West are trying to organize a primary challenge against President Obama."
  • "“Here is a goodly summons!” said Turnbull, with a sort of horselaugh."
  • "So many of the scholars we'd interviewed had given us the old horselaugh."
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