punchline's Usage Examples:

punch-line or punchline) concludes a joke; it is intended to make people laugh.

literature in which the funniness culminates in the final sentence, called the punchline… In fact, the main condition is that the tension should reach its highest.

real punchline at all.

The Obvious Punchline: Involves narratives that are structured like a traditional joke including a set-up and punchline, but whose.

curious setup of the joke leads the listener to expect a traditional punchline, but they are instead given a simple statement of fact.

"Basil Brush: The un-PC punchline that went boom boom".

It has since become a catchphrase and punchline.

usually takes the form of long monologues of personal narrative; the punchline is either hard to predict or never came.

Ban-Lon came to be used as a punchline for jokes in films and on television shows in the 1990s.