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    POKE FUN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (verb) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Subject to laughter or ridiculeplay

    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

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