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means A person who has become a target of widespread ridicule or mockery.

from A 16th-century compound of 'laughing' plus 'stock' — and that second half comes from the stocks, the wooden pillory device where offenders were locked up in public squares to be jeered at and pelted by passersby. So a laughingstock was originally imagined as someone figuratively clamped in place, put on display purely for others' amusement — the word still carries that sense of helpless, fixed exposure to mockery.