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Complete Definition of "laughing stock"

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Noun
laughing stock

  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

Related terms
butt of the joke

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