Words similar to punch

Example sentences for: punch

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This has been the tradition since 1851, the year in which the firm of John Jaques of Hatton Garden, London, commissioned John Tenniel, the Punch cartoonist and future illustrator of Lewis Carroll's Alice books, to design the eleven families of four members each in their highly successful and long-lived juvenile pastime.
It ends on a note of blithe miscegenation--just the sort of punch line to send the Camilles of the world screaming from the theater swiping at invisible bugs.
But I do not feel comfortable with a punch line that alludes to the plunger.
The newest curators-in-your-pocket are lightweight CD-ROM based systems on which visitors can punch in the numbers on wall labels, accessing commentary on whatever interests them.
The director, Kelly Makin, hits the gags hard--he turns punch lines into slug lines--but his timing is crackerjack.