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takeoff, mockery

n. humorous or satirical mimicry

takeoff, mockery, charade, lampoon, spoof, sendup, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade

n. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

spoof

v. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

spoof, burlesque

v. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"

takeoff, parody, mockery, charade, lampoon, spoof, sendup, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade

n. a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way

takeoff, parody, mockery

n. humorous or satirical mimicry

irony, sarcasm, satire, caustic remark

n. witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift

sketch, cartoon

n. a humorous or satirical drawing published in a newspaper or magazine

fraud, fraudulence, dupery, hoax, put-on

n. something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

double entendre

n. an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate

crack, sally, wisecrack, quip

n. witty remark

give-and-take, banter, raillery, backchat

n. light teasing repartee

repartee

n. adroitness and cleverness in reply

humor, wit, humour, witticism, wittiness

n. a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter

contempt, scorn

n. open disrespect for a person or thing

derision, ridicule

n. contemptuous laughter

joke, jest, wheeze, yak, gag, laugh, jape

n. a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter; "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

play, sport, fun

n. verbal wit or mockery (often at another's expense but not to be taken seriously); "he became a figure of fun"; "he said it in sport"

magnification, exaggeration, overstatement

n. making to seem more important than it really is

model, simulate, reenact, re-enact

v. create again

duplicate, twin, parallel

v. duplicate or match; "The polished surface twinned his face and chest in reverse"

illustrate

v. depict with an illustration

copy, simulate, imitate

v. reproduce someone's behavior or looks; "The mime imitated the passers-by"; "Children often copy their parents or older siblings"

mime, pantomime

v. act out without words but with gestures and bodily movements only; "The acting students mimed eating an apple"

mimic, mock

v. imitate (a person or manner), especially for satirical effect; "The actor mimicked the President very accurately"

pattern, model

v. plan or create according to a model or models

double, duplicate, repeat, reduplicate, replicate

v. make or do or perform again; "He could never replicate his brilliant performance of the magic trick"

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