POKE FUN

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Example:

His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Synonyms:

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "poke fun" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poke fun"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

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