laugh line vs crease

laugh line and crease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
laugh line	Yes	No	No	No
crease	Yes	No	Yes	No

As nouns, crease is a hypernym of laugh line; that is, crease is a word with a broader meaning than laugh line:

Other hypernyms of laugh line include crinkle, furrow, line, seam, wrinkle.

laugh line (noun)	crease (noun)
the point of a joke or humorous story	a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
a wrinkle in the skin at the outer corner of your eyes	a slight depression or fold in the smoothness of a surface
	an angular or rounded shape made by folding

laugh line (verb)	crease (verb)
	become wrinkled or crumpled or creased
	make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in; `crisp' is archaic
	make wrinkled or creased
	scrape gently