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单词 payoff line
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payoff line
payoff line n. the punchline or dénouement of a joke, story, etc.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [noun] > jest or pleasantry > a jest or joke > punchline
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1934 J. O'Hara Appointment in Samarra (1935) i. 16 And they always knew when to laugh, even when it was a Catholic joke, because Reilly signalled the pay-off line by slapping his leg just before it was delivered.
1944 W. H. Auden For Time Being (1945) 80 The pay-off lines of limericks in which The weak resentful bar-fly shows his sting.
1995 Empire Nov. 128/3 This straight-to-video schlocker stars Stella Stevens as a zombie gran dispatching her unpleasant progeny while cackling ever feebler pay-off lines.
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