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Ha-ha   /hɑ-hɑ/   Listen
Ha-ha

noun
1.
A loud laugh that sounds like a horse neighing.  Synonyms: haw-haw, hee-haw, horselaugh.
2.
A ditch with one side being a retaining wall; used to divide lands without defacing the landscape.  Synonyms: haw-haw, sunk fence.






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"Ha-ha" Quotes from Famous Books



... the car, half on her side over the rear seat, two very strong hands clamping her wrists together behind her back. As she sucked in her breath for a yell, the door snapped shut behind her, cutting off the rollicking "ha-ha-ha's" and other noises outside. ...
— Legacy • James H Schmitz

... chestnut. The gate was six feet or more, and the jackaroo raised his hat and hastened to open it, but Mary reined her horse back a few yards and the "dood" had barely time to jump aside when there was a scuffle of hoofs on the road, a "Ha-ha-ha!" in mid-air, a landing thud, and the girl was away up the home-track in a cloud ...
— Children of the Bush • Henry Lawson

... ... hu-ha-ha-ha ..." At the dais, Lonnie put his foot on the second step and patted Genghis Khan familiarly on one ivory knee. "I like this old boy. He had the right idea. I have it. You haven't. You never had. If you had, you'd'a listened to the proposition I made you way ...
— Zero Data • Charles Saphro

... a sudden end; for as, rapt in his thoughts, the boy had continued to walk backward; he had come to the verge where the lawn slided off into the ditch of the ha-ha—and, just as he was fortifying himself by the precept and practice of my Lord Bacon, the ground went from under him, and slap into the ditch ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 • Various

... and her governess. The other guests were Gervais, Magnitski, and Stolypin. While still in the anteroom Prince Andrew heard loud voices and a ringing staccato laugh—a laugh such as one hears on the stage. Someone—it sounded like Speranski—was distinctly ejaculating ha-ha-ha. Prince Andrew had never before heard Speranski's famous laugh, and this ringing, high pitched laughter from a statesman made a ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy


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