To make the spontaneous sounds and movements of the face and body usual in expressing joy, mirth… intransitive. Without construction.

intransitive and transitive. Chiefly in representations of regional speech: = laugh, v.

To laugh. colloquial.

A laugh, esp. a loud or hearty one; a burst of laughter. Also occasionally: something which causes laughter; a joke; a gag.

intransitive. To laugh, esp. loudly or uproariously. Cf. yock, n.