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noun 
  1. (idiom) Someone who is publicly ridiculed.
After I got drunk and fell asleep naked outside my manager's house, I've been the laughing stock of the club.
Etymology: Thought to originate from the time when stocks were used to punish and humiliate petty criminals


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