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Slapstick

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humorousFull of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
humourous(chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous. [Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.]

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humourous(chiefly UK, uncommon, proscribed) Alternative spelling of humorous. [Full of humor or arousing laughter; funny.]
humorousFull of humor or arousing laughter; funny.
zanynounUnusual and awkward in a funny, comical manner; outlandish; clownish.
slapstickerynounThe art of performing slapstick.
slapstickernounSomeone who performs slapstick comedy.
farcenoun(uncountable) A style of humor marked by broad improbabilities with little regard to regularity or method.
slapnoun(countable) A blow, especially one given with the open hand, or with something broad and flat.
happy slapnoun(informal) An instance of happy slapping.
slapgatenoun(informal, neologism) The controversy around the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, when actor Will Smith walked onstage and slapped comedian Chris Rock during Rock's presentation for Best Documentary Feature, in response to Rock making an insulting joke about Smith's wife.
knee-slappingnounThe action of striking one's own knee with the hand, associated with hearty laughter.
dickslapnoun(slang, vulgar, uncommon) The act of slapping someone with one's penis, particularly in the face.
slap and ticklenoun(colloquial, idiomatic) Mild or playful kissing, cuddling, and other amorous play.
slappingverbThe act of giving a slap or slaps
knee slappernounAlternative form of knee-slapper. [(idiomatic) A joke, especially one which strikes the listener or reader as particularly humorous.]
sillinessnoun(uncountable) That which is perceived as silly or frivolous.
shticknounA generally humorous routine.
happy slappingnoun(informal) The practice of physically attacking (originally, slapping), and often verbally abusing, a person and photographing or filming the attack using a camera phone, the recording sometimes being sent to others to further humiliate the victim.
clapnounThe act of striking the palms of the hands, or any two surfaces, together.
cockslapnoun(slang, vulgar, uncommon) Synonym of dickslap (“a slap with the penis”).
thigh-slappernoun(idiomatic) Synonym of knee-slapper.

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