Green’s Dictionary of Slang

don’t be stupid, ridiculous; thus ext. as don’t make me laugh I’ve got a split/sore lip.

1900		Sporting Times 10 Feb. 1/1: ‘Naow, naow, naow, don’ make me larf, Jim, don’ make me larf,’ pleaded poor Budd, ‘cos I got a cracked lip!’.
1916		J. Lait ‘Canada Kid’ Beef, Iron and Wine (1917) 176: ‘Does the blame things work — can you light ’em?’ asked the Kid. ‘Don’t make me laugh,’ said ‘Silk’. ‘What do you want for a quarter?’.
1926		M. West Sex (1997) I i: margy: But suppose he really loves her? rocky: Don’t make me laugh.
1930		E. Glyn Flirt and Flapper 85: Flapper: Ask a boy to forgive you! Don’t make me laugh!
1937		J. Curtis You’re in the Racket, Too 156: Don’t make me laugh, I got a sore lip. What the hell good’s a tenner to a bloke like me?
1940		E.F. Frazier Negro Youth 137: ‘Don’t make me laugh! You know “niggers” don’t have the chance white people have anywhere’.
1953		E. Hunter ‘Small Homicide’ Jungle Kids (1967) 51: ‘And you knew she had a daughter?’ ‘Don’t make me laugh.’.
1957		G. Kersh Fowlers End (2001) 26: ‘Don’t make me laugh,’ I says. ‘I got a cracked lip.’.
1963		A.S. Fleischman Venetian Blonde (2006) 211: Make me laugh, darling [...] But don’t make me laugh.
1981		S. Berkoff Decadence in Decadence and Other Plays (1985) 28: Don’t make me piss my pants / don’t make me laugh.
1998		P. McCabe Breakfast on Pluto 26: Well, excuse me, Father, but don’t make me laugh — please don’t make me fucking laugh.

1. of a visitor, to act in a sufficiently entertaining manner to win an invitation to a meal.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

2. to chat or gossip instead of getting on with one’s work, thus using one’s wit and charm to hide one’s actual laziness.

1996

Allsopp Dict. Carib. Eng. Usage.

sexual intercourse.

c.1850

Peeping Tom (London) 9 34/1: ‘[M]aking that monster the ‘beast with two backs’ [...] a game we call laugh and lay down’.

(drugs) to inject a drug, usu. heroin.

1938		D. Maurer ‘Lang. of the Und. Narcotic Addict’ Pt 2 in Lang. Und. (1981) 104/2: To laugh and scratch. To take narcotics hypodermically; injections, especially intravenous injections, produce a prickly or itchy sensation over the addict’s entire body.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn).
1953		Anslinger & Tompkins Traffic In Narcotics 311: laugh and scratch. To inject or be injected with a drug.
2001		ONDCP Street Terms 13: Laugh and scratch — To inject a drug.

(Aus.) to vomit.

1963–74		B. Humphries Barry McKenzie [comic strip] in Complete Barry McKenzie (1988) 26: I’ll chunder [...] throw the voice, play the whale, laugh at the ground.
1986		Eble Campus Sl. Nov. 9: worship the porcelain goddess [...] laugh at the carpet.
1986		R. Beckett Dinkum Aussie Dict. 32: Kark: To ‘chunder’, to have ‘a technicolour yawn’, laugh at the ground’ or ‘shout for Ruth.’.
1992		R.G. Barrett White Shoes 86: Have you ever heard of the expression ‘Having an up and under’? [...] A technicolor yawn? Having a laugh at the footpath?
1999		G. Seal Lingo 135: As over-indulgence in alcoholic beverages may induce vomiting, the Lingo is well stocked with terms for this, including [...] laugh at the ground.
2005		Roger’s Profanisaurus in Viz Apr. 48: laugh at the grass v. To vomit.

to laugh uproariously.

1973		C. Gaines Stay Hungry 105: I’m gonna be here and I’m gonna laugh my ass off.
1977		J. Langone Life at the Bottom 199: He’s laughin’ his ass off, gettin’ a lot of chuckles.
1978		W. Wharton Birdy 14: I’m torn between laughing my balls off and shitting my pants.
1980		R. Ansell To Fight the Wild 108: He’s laughing that much he’s crying [...] Laughing his guts out.
1986		T. Winton That Eye, The Sky 112: Tegwyn is laughing her box off next to me.
1987		(con. 1967) E. Spencer Welcome to Vietnam (1989) 109: One guy writhing in pain while two others are laughing their asses off.
2009		T. Black Gutted 170: I was laughing my arse off at plod scrabbling up the wall.
2011		J.J. DeCeglie Drawing Dead [ebook] I laughed my balls off about it the whole walk home.