Words similar to punch

Example sentences for: punch

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Boyle's Helen is a thin dirty joke rescued only by a good punch line (and Boyle, who drops her voice to a husky whisper, looks wildly out of place in this clearly Jewish family).
In a way a joke, in its structure, is the antithesis of a witticism in that is usually placed within a narrative framework and withholds any response until the punch line is reached.
After an epic exchange of personal pirouettes she delivered the knockout punch with the following: I told her to her face, [an aberrant piece of straighttalking, this] Don't you turn round to me and tell me I turned round and accused you of being two-faced.
That scene is like a mini Beckett farce with a cruel jet of gore for a punch line.
(Contest alert: Best punch line e-mailed to the Shopping Avenger will be rewarded by public mention in this space, plus a lifetime supply of Turtle Wax, if the Shopping Avenger can figure out what Turtle Wax is.)