belly laugh

noun

: a deep hearty laugh

Examples of belly laugh in a Sentence

He has an infectious belly laugh. The show provided lots of belly laughs.
Recent Examples on the Web Morrison misses his late partner’s gigantic belly laugh that would engulf everything in its orbit. Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2024 Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags. Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024 Just try your best to separate big belly laughs from bites of food, and save the call to mom for when you’re entirely finished eating. Julia Sullivan, SELF, 9 July 2024 Harris asks, surrendering to one of her famous belly laughs. Jessica Winter, The New Yorker, 5 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for belly laugh 

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Word History

First Known Use

1916, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of belly laugh was in 1916

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“Belly laugh.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/belly%20laugh. Accessed 5 Nov. 2024.

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