- showing that you think something is funny; showing happiness
- his laughing blue eyes
- laughing faces
Oxford Collocations DictionaryLaughing is used with these nouns:- fit
- gas
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Idioms
See laughing in the Oxford Advanced American Dictionarybe no laughing matter
- to be something serious that you should not joke about
die laughing
- to find something extremely funny
- I nearly died laughing when she said that.
split your sides (laughing/with laughter)
- to laugh a lot at somebody/something
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