Definition: laughingstock

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

laughingstock
     n : a victim of ridicule or pranks [syn: butt, goat, stooge]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Laughingstock \Laugh"ing*stock`\, n.
   An object of ridicule; a butt of sport. --Shak.

         When he talked, he talked nonsense, and made himself
         the laughingstock of his hearers.        --Macaulay.