Meanings
verbcry-laugh (third-person singular simple present cry-laughs, present participle cry-laughing, simple past and past participle cry-laughed)
present singular third person cry-laughs · participle present cry-laughing · participle past cry-laughed · past cry-laughed
- intransitiveTo laugh so much that tears are shed.
And I could only cry-laugh at a scene in which Fake Roth concedes that the author Roth could well have a trademark case against him, if he chose to pursue it.
2023, Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
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APA
cry-laugh. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry-laugh
MLA
“cry-laugh.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry-laugh. Accessed November 3, 2026.
Chicago
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “cry-laugh,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/cry-laugh.
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