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laughing stock
laughing stock or laughingstocknan object of humiliating ridicule: his mistakes have made him a laughing stock. Thesauruslaughing stocknoun figure of fun, target, victim, butt, fair game, Aunt Sally (Brit.), everybody's fool His politics became the laughing stock of the financial community.Translationslaughing stock
laughing stockA person who is the subject of mockery after a blunder. If I mess up this speech, I'll be the laughing stock of the school!See also: laugh, stocklaughingstocksomeone or something that is the target of ridicule. After he passed out at the president's dinner, he became the laughingstock of all his colleagues.a laughing stock If you describe someone or something as a laughing stock, you mean that people think they are silly. The truth must never get out. If it did she would be a laughing stock. His policies became the laughing stock of the financial community.See also: laugh, stocklaughing stock a person subjected to general mockery or ridicule.See also: laugh, stocka ˈlaughing stock a person that everyone laughs at because they have done something stupid: I can’t wear this to the party! I’ll be a laughing stock!See also: laugh, stocklaughing stock
Synonyms for laughing stocknoun figure of funSynonyms- figure of fun
- target
- victim
- butt
- fair game
- Aunt Sally
- everybody's fool
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