WordNet
n. ultimate success achieved after a near failure (inspired by the saying `he laughs best who laughs last'); "we had the last laugh after the votes were counted"
Wikipedia
"Last Laugh" is an episode from the TV series M*A*S*H. It was the fourth episode of the sixth season, originally airing October 4, 1977 and repeated March 6, 1978, and written by Everett Greenbaum and Jim Fritzell and directed by Don Weis.
Guest cast is James Cromwell as Capt. Leo Bardonaro, Robert Karnes as Major General Frederick Fox, and John Ashton as an MP.
Last Laugh or The Last Laugh may refer to:
Joker's Last Laugh is a Crossover series superhero graphic novel published by DC Comics in 2001.
Usage examples of "last laugh".
Hiding away in exile, with the Federation Council making pronouncements against him and his friends, and now they were going to have the last laugh.
And during the storm of press that erupted in the aftermath of her death-referred to by the tabloids as her mysterious disappearance, as if she were having the last laugh from a lavish hacienda somewhere south of the border-there were times when even Daphne, Kitty, and Alex had to wonder.
Instead, she would have the last laugh and accept the responsibility.
I was all ready to go back to Lugard, but he had the last laugh, he did.