Meaning of punchliney | Babel Free

Definitions

Of, related to, resembling, or containing a punchline.

informal, rare

Examples

“His writings are both mature and playful, contemplative and punchliney.”

“Grecian Formula, introduced in 1961, about the same time as the women's at-home hair-coloring market was ramping up, is the punch-liney legacy brand, but today the market is filled with products […]”

“Four leading nominations in your first ten movies is nothing at all to scoff at, but in lots of her roles, Mason herself seems to be playing "the Marsha Mason type," either because she seems self-conscious and proud of her punchliney mannerisms (The Goodbye Girl) or insufficiently challenged by the script (Chapter Two), or because her appealing qualities do not encompass the kind of distinctive personality that would make her believable as anyone's irreplaceable vessel or muse.”

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