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POKE FUN
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Subject to laughter or ridicule
Example:
His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
Synonyms:
blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast
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:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s PP
