"underlaugh" meaning in English

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          "text": "“A stretcher case, surely,” he added, and an underlaugh rippled through the ranks and files.",
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          "text": "So in this specific role, in this specific scene, my fontal rush of propulsive fear, my prickly self-strickenness, and my strangled underlaugh that was (and still is) a result of what Sigmund Freud identified as the “liminal dilemma between the intense desire for supplication and the concurrent need for masochistic provocation” all combined to create an illusion of a brilliant stage presence, bursting with potential and future possibility.",
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          "text": "Campbell laughed a quiet under-laugh, half sad, half humorous.",
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          "word": "underlaughter"
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