"laugh one's head off" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-laugh one's head off.ogg Forms: laughs one's head off [present, singular, third-person], laughing one's head off [participle, present], laughed one's head off [participle, past], laughed one's head off [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} laugh one's head off (third-person singular simple present laughs one's head off, present participle laughing one's head off, simple past and past participle laughed one's head off)
  1. (idiomatic, informal) To laugh uproariously. Tags: idiomatic, informal Synonyms: ROFL, roll in the aisles, split one's sides, laugh one's ass off [vulgar] Translations (laugh uproariously): grine sig ihjel (Danish), zich bescheuren (Dutch), kapot lachen (Dutch), nauraa katketakseen (Finnish), avoir un fou rire (French), sich vor Lachen kringeln (German), totlachen (German), halálra neveti magát (Hungarian), majd megpukkad/megszakad nevettében / a nevetéstől (Hungarian), sbellicarsi dalle risa (Italian), sganasciarsi dalle risate (Italian), 大笑いする (ōwarai suru) (Japanese), ji kenan mirin (Northern Kurdish), umierać ze śmiechu [imperfective] (Polish), sikać ze śmiechu [colloquial, imperfective] (Polish), morrer de rir [Brazil] (Portuguese), morrer a rir [Portugal] (Portuguese), muri de râs (Romanian), хохота́ть до слёз (xoxotátʹ do sljoz) (Russian), смея́ться до упа́ду (smejátʹsja do upádu) (Russian), desternillarse de risa (Spanish), morirse de risa (Spanish), partirse de risa (Spanish), mearse de risa (Spanish), partirse (Spanish), troncharse (Spanish), mondarse (Spanish), carcajearse (Spanish), reírse a mandíbula batiente (Spanish), skratta ihjäl sig (Swedish), gülmekten bayılmak [idiomatic] (Turkish)

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        "To laugh uproariously."
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          "note": "笑得要死 (xiào de yào sǐ, literally “die laughing”)",
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          "note": "笑掉大牙 (xiào diào dà yá, literally “laugh til the front teeth fall out”)",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
          "word": "nauraa katketakseen"
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          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
          "word": "avoir un fou rire"
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "code": "de",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "lang": "Hungarian",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "code": "kmr",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "roman": "xoxotátʹ do sljoz",
          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
          "word": "хохота́ть до слёз"
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          "roman": "smejátʹsja do upádu",
          "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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          "code": "es",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "roman": "xoxotátʹ do sljoz",
      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
      "word": "хохота́ть до слёз"
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      "roman": "smejátʹsja do upádu",
      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "code": "es",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
      "word": "reírse a mandíbula batiente"
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      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
      "word": "skratta ihjäl sig"
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      "lang": "Turkish",
      "sense": "laugh uproariously",
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      "word": "gülmekten bayılmak"
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  "word": "laugh one's head off"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.