"step on the laughs" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "steps on the laughs",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "stepping on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "head": "step on the laughs"
      },
      "expansion": "step on the laughs (third-person singular simple present steps on the laughs, present participle stepping on the laughs, simple past and past participle stepped on the laughs)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews, volume 48, page 121",
          "text": "\"The timing is very different — at first I was speaking too quickly, stepping on the laughs,\" said Mr. Jillette. \"So I'd wait, and I thought, my God, I'm turning into Shecky Greene here, standing and waiting for the laughs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Candice Bergen, Knock Wood, page 41",
          "text": "\"Now remember, Candy,\" my father warned me sternly, \"wait till it's quiet to say your lines. Don't step on the laughs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Diane Windingland, Cat Got Your Tongue?, page 42",
          "text": "Don't “step on the laughs” just because you are long on content and short on time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell jokes too rapidly when performing comedy, failing to milk the maximum laughter from the audience."
      ],
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  "word": "step on the laughs"
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      "form": "steps on the laughs",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepping on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stepped on the laughs",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "*",
        "head": "step on the laughs"
      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1987, New York Theatre Critics' Reviews, volume 48, page 121",
          "text": "\"The timing is very different — at first I was speaking too quickly, stepping on the laughs,\" said Mr. Jillette. \"So I'd wait, and I thought, my God, I'm turning into Shecky Greene here, standing and waiting for the laughs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Candice Bergen, Knock Wood, page 41",
          "text": "\"Now remember, Candy,\" my father warned me sternly, \"wait till it's quiet to say your lines. Don't step on the laughs.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012, Diane Windingland, Cat Got Your Tongue?, page 42",
          "text": "Don't “step on the laughs” just because you are long on content and short on time.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To tell jokes too rapidly when performing comedy, failing to milk the maximum laughter from the audience."
      ],
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          "joke",
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          "milk",
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