Definitions | laughing stock |
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- (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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