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- noun Plural form of
thigh-slapper .
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Examples
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But when my card number came up at the library, I found those passages to be something less than thigh-slappers.
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And that's probably one of the lesser thigh-slappers.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Woody Allen Sparks Relatively Speaking, While Elaine May, Ethan Coen Lack Luster David Finkle 2011
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And that's probably one of the lesser thigh-slappers.
David Finkle: First Nighter: Woody Allen Sparks Relatively Speaking, While Elaine May, Ethan Coen Lack Luster David Finkle 2011
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The gags, although still far from thigh-slappers, resonate in the real world.
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It is as though Amis has lived with the ideas so long that he can't let anything go - including some wincing thigh-slappers about which even Thomas Pynchon might hesitate ( "Sexual intercourse had come a long way"; "Spin this out, Scheherazade").
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Here we find the howling thigh-slappers “the irrefutable theory of irreducible complexity” (which isn’t a theory, it’s specific claims each of which is thoroughly refuted), “hostility toward religion” (how dare they restrict science class to mere science?)
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In an attack of Respectability, he’d composed a high-blown Christmas epistle in December to Mrs. Fairbanks—that other stranger to the joys of thigh-slappers—and, with Livy in mind as an audience, allowed the Cleveland matron to publish an excerpt in the Herald on January 16.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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In an attack of Respectability, he’d composed a high-blown Christmas epistle in December to Mrs. Fairbanks—that other stranger to the joys of thigh-slappers—and, with Livy in mind as an audience, allowed the Cleveland matron to publish an excerpt in the Herald on January 16.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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