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Definition of laughing hyena in English: laughing hyenanoun another term for spotted hyena Example sentencesExamples - The farce is in the hysterical-absurdist mode, leaping from excess to excess, part souped-up gazelle, part nastily laughing hyena.
- Lawyers have referred to black male defendants as ‘laughing hyenas out to kill someone,’ ‘vultures,’ ‘tigers,’ ‘mad dogs,’ and ‘animals in the jungle.’
- His is the voice behind the indirect discourse that perceives them as laughing hyenas.
- They also endured first-hand experiences with green mamba snakes, grunting warthogs, laughing hyenas, and black centipedes which would fall dramatically into the bath.
- But I take humor seriously as well, as I feel it is one of those essential human values that distinguish us from the lesser creatures - apart from the laughing hyena, of course.
- ‘A sense of humour is good for you,’ Hope wisecracked, ‘Ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?’
Definition of laughing hyena in US English: laughing hyenanounlafiNG hīˈēnə another term for spotted hyena Example sentencesExamples - His is the voice behind the indirect discourse that perceives them as laughing hyenas.
- But I take humor seriously as well, as I feel it is one of those essential human values that distinguish us from the lesser creatures - apart from the laughing hyena, of course.
- The farce is in the hysterical-absurdist mode, leaping from excess to excess, part souped-up gazelle, part nastily laughing hyena.
- ‘A sense of humour is good for you,’ Hope wisecracked, ‘Ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn?’
- Lawyers have referred to black male defendants as ‘laughing hyenas out to kill someone,’ ‘vultures,’ ‘tigers,’ ‘mad dogs,’ and ‘animals in the jungle.’
- They also endured first-hand experiences with green mamba snakes, grunting warthogs, laughing hyenas, and black centipedes which would fall dramatically into the bath.
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