Usually means: Object of ridicule or mockery.
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We found 14 dictionaries that define the word laughing stock:

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  1. laughing stock: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. laughing stock: Collins English Dictionary
  3. laughing-stock: Wordnik
  4. laughing stock: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. laughing-stock, laughing stock: Wiktionary
  6. laughing-stock, laughing stock: Dictionary.com
  7. laughing-stock: Online Etymology Dictionary
  8. Laughing Stock (album), Laughing Stock, Laughing stock (disambiguation): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. laughing-stock: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. Laughing-stock: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  11. laughing stock: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. laughing stock: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (laughing stock)

noun:  (idiomatic) An object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed; the butt of a joke.

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