Words similar to punch

Example sentences for: punch

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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.
Mellish, Adam Goldberg's nervy Jew, who can't keep from taunting captured Germans with his religious identity, is a study in aggression, like Groucho without punch lines.
His job is simple: He must punch holes into the government's soft places.
(The girl is so much like a fourth-rate porn actress that the audience assumes she was hired to help the boy become a man--but the punch line never comes.)
The article Politicking With Words , with its references to rival definitions of Whig and Tory , put me in mind of a cartoon that appeared in Punch in 1896 (since republished in a collection--I don't go back quite that far).