"laugh like a drain" meaning in English

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Verb

Audio: En-au-laugh like a drain.ogg [Australia] Forms: laughs like a drain [present, singular, third-person], laughing like a drain [participle, present], laughed like a drain [participle, past], laughed like a drain [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} laugh like a drain (third-person singular simple present laughs like a drain, present participle laughing like a drain, simple past and past participle laughed like a drain)
  1. (British, simile) To laugh with a loud, coarse sound Tags: British Translations (Translations): hohottaa (Finnish), nauraa käheästi (Finnish), rire comme une baleine (French), rire comme un bossu (French)
    Sense id: en-laugh_like_a_drain-en-verb-1Ot5tWkG Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, English similes

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for laugh like a drain meaning in English (2.1kB)

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