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laugh like a drain en · VERB

Pronunciation

Meanings

  1. (UK, qualifier:simile) To laugh with a loud, coarse sound
    • Charles laughs like a drain and empties his champagne glass. “How about some fruit juice and muesli, pumpkin?” 2007, William Brandt, The Book of the Film of the Story of My Life:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
laughing like a drain Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
laughed like a drain Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part lexicographic
laughed like a drain Tense=Past lexicographic
laughs like a drain Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres lexicographic

Translations (4)

fi hohottaa (Translations) · fr rire comme un bossu (Translations) · fr rire comme une baleine (Translations) · fi nauraa käheästi (Translations)