Definition of "punchline" []

• Alternative spelling of punch line. (noun)

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• "So, your punchline is a story about what happened in a completely different branch of government."
• "The laughter comes from an unfamiliar situation, much like a joke that sets up a situation and the punchline is the unexpected opposite."
• ""The new religions, Islam and Christianity, are just on the top," says a classic Naipaul informant, a lawyer and former university dean in Gabon; his punchline is a perfect short Naipaulian thematic sentence: "Inside us is the forest.""