punch line

1. 1.

   the point of a joke or humorous story

   Synonymslaugh linegag linetag line

   Broaderline

   Part ofjoke

Questions about punch line

What does punch line mean?

punch line means "the point of a joke or humorous story".

What is another word for punch line?

Close synonyms include laugh line, gag line, tag line. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is punch line a common word?

punch line is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.