Usually means: Ending that delivers the joke.
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General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. punch line: Merriam-Webster
  2. punch line: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. punch line: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. punch line: Collins English Dictionary
  5. punch line: Vocabulary.com
  6. punch-line, punch line: Wordnik
  7. punch line: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. punch line: Wiktionary
  9. punch line: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. punch line: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. punch line: Dictionary.com
  12. Punch Line (video game), Punch Line, Punch line (disambiguation), Punch line (ice hockey), Punch line, The Punch Line: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. punch line: Rhymezone
  14. punch line: FreeDictionary.org
  15. punch line: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. punch line: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Punch-line, punch line: Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. punch line: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (punch line)

noun:  The final part of a joke; the word, sentence, or exchange of sentences that is intended to be funny and provokes laughter from the listeners.
noun:  (by extension) The butt of a joke; laughing stock.
noun:  (by extension) A final, concluding statement that an explanation has been leading up to; a conclusion.

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