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rib-tickling

[ rib-tik-ling ]

adjective

  1. very amusing; funny or hilarious:

    a book of rib-tickling stories.



rib-tickling

adjective

  1. very amusing; causing laughter
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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  • rib-tickler noun
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Word History and Origins

Origin of rib-tickling1

First recorded in 1935–40
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Example Sentences

On social media, videos of the incident have been watched tens of thousands of times and many Twitter users have posted rib-tickling comments in response to the visuals.

From BBC

But for the brand of musical comedy that Sondheim and book writer James Lapine were after — a storybook world of out-of-control anxiety — some rib-tickling personal dazzle is absolutely the right way to go.

The protean Troy Valjean Rucker is a standout in multiple roles, including a florist who delivers a rib-tickling Shakespeare pun.

The smack itself sent the internet into a frenzy with many taking to Twitter and other media channels to either make light of the situation in the form of rib-tickling memes or to lend their two cents as spectators who had witnessed an on-camera assault by one of show business's most "wholesome" performers.

They are rollicking riots of rib-tickling jocularity, side-splitting expeditions into the ironic arts.

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