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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
belly laugh
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ It was a fun evening that ricocheted between giggle, belly laugh and roar.
▪ What used to cause a belly laugh now earns a pleasant chuckle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
belly laugh

belly laugh \bel"ly laugh`\, n. a vigorous, loud laugh, expressing a strong amusement.

Wiktionary
belly laugh

n. A deep, hearty laugh vb. To laugh a belly laugh.

WordNet
belly laugh
  1. n. a burst of deep loud hearty laughter [syn: guffaw]

  2. a joke that seems extremely funny [syn: sidesplitter, howler, thigh-slapper, scream, wow, riot]

Usage examples of "belly laugh".

As far as he was concerned, what the Mormons believed was good only for a belly laugh.

It was a deep laugh, a belly laugh, and he couldn't remember the last time he'd done that.

Pandrasus laughed, a big belly laugh, his body shaking with the strength of its merriment.

He finished with a belly laugh that caused him to shake in all directions at once.

One friendly old Senator had threatened to drag the conversation out for hours, but Serai had deftly slipped in a joke that caused him to boom into a belly laugh in the middle of a sip of wine, requiring immediate steps to save the tunic he wore.

The innkeeper gave a belly laugh and emptied his mug, then wiped the foam from his lips and glanced a Pony-to find her staring at him hard.