I. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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"Oh we've got him now!" I cackled, dancing round the room.
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When I said this, he started cackling like a madman.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A police car radio cackled raucously.
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He kept laughing, cackling, making wild, insane remarks.
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In telling it, he cackled like a corncrake and waved his arms about.
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Mad machines gibbered, cackled, screeched insanely and blasted each other with sudden bursts of machine gun fire.
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She begins cackling, smacking her lips, like a child thinking of a turkey dinner.
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She is apt to cackle evilly.
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The hens clambered in, cackling with delight and greed.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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loud cackles of amusement
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There was a cackle from the old lady. "I know what you're after."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And finally, there are the ones that seem little more than a cue for a really good cackle .
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How would you put his cackle in print or produce that grin with parentheses and colons?
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In his classes, he subjected students to the cackles of mechanical laugh boxes to test their reactions.
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Nor, it must be said, a hoot, chuckle, chortle, crow or cackle .
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Spider let out a weird high-pitched cackle that scared Miguel.