payoff line
noun
The punchline or dénouement of a joke, story, etc.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in John O'Hara (1905–1970), novelist and short story writer.
- disinterested
- disinterestedly
- disinterestedness
- disintermediate
- disintermediation
- disintermediator
- disinterment
- disinvent
- disinvest
- disinvestment
- disinvite
- disinvoltura
- disjecta membra
- disjoin
- disjoint
- disjointed
- disjointedly
- disjointedness
- disjunct
- disjunction
- disjunctive
- disjunctively
- disjuncture
- disk
- diskal