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 Definitions of punch line  [ˌpʌn tʃəˈnɛl oʊ]  

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Definition of 'punch line' Random House Webster's College Dictionary 

1. (n.) punch line
the climactic phrase or sentence in a joke, speech, or humorous story that produces the desired effect.

Etymology:  (1920–25, Amer.)

Definition of 'punch line' Princeton's WordNet 

1. (noun) punch line, laugh line, gag line, tag line
the point of a joke or humorous story
Definition of 'punch line' Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary 

1. (noun) punch line
the funny line at the end of a joke
I always forget the punch line.
Translation of 'punch line' Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary 

Sense: the funny sentence or phrase that ends a joke
He always laughs before he gets to the punch line.
Afrikaans flag Afrikaans: trefreël Arabic flag Arabic: الجُمْلَةِ الأخيرَةِ المُ Bulgarian flag Bulgarian: поанта
Brazilian flag Brazilian: ponto culminante Czech flag Czech: pointa German flag German: die Pointe
Danish flag Danish: pointe Greek flag Greek: κατάληξη ανέκδοτου Spanish flag Spanish: remate (de un chiste)
Estonian flag Estonian: (nalja) puänt Farsi flag Farsi: بخش اصلی شوخی یا جوک Finnish flag Finnish: huipentuma
French flag French: conclusion (comique) Hebrew flag Hebrew: שוּרָת מָחַץ Hindi flag Hindi: अन्तिम पंक्ति
Hungarian flag Hungarian: csattanó, poén Indonesian flag Indonesian: bagian akhir lelucon Icelandic flag Icelandic: lokasetningí skrÿtlu
Italian flag Italian: (battuta finale) Japanese flag Japanese: おち Korean flag Korean: 급소를 찌르는 말
Lithuanian flag Lithuanian: esmė Latvian flag Latvian: (anekdotes)‘sāls' Malay flag Malay: bahagian yg melucukan
Dutch flag Dutch: rake slotzin Norwegian flag Norwegian: poeng, sluttreplikk Polish flag Polish: pointa
Persian flag Persian: بخش اصلی شوخی یا جوک Pashto flag Pashto: مستى ،ساعتيرى Portuguese flag Portuguese: ponto culminante
Russian flag Russian: ударная фраза Slovak flag Slovak: pointa Slovenian flag Slovenian: poanta
Serbian flag Serbian: poenta Swedish flag Swedish: slutpoäng Thai flag Thai: คำคม
Turkish flag Turkish: esprili nokta, can alıcı Taiwanese flag Taiwanese: 妙語 Ukrainian flag Ukrainian: фраза, яка вміщує “сіль”
Urdu flag Urdu: لطيفہ کي آخري بات Vietnamese flag Vietnamese: điểm nút Chinese flag Chinese: 妙语

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