lampoon

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  1. noun A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution. See Synonyms at caricature.
  2. noun A light, good-humored satire.
  3. transitive verb To ridicule or satirize in or as if in a lampoon.

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  • In the style of the most shameless Jesuit lampoon, the Amphitheatrum or the Scaliger hypobolimaeus , and with Jesuit tactics, every odious crime is imputed to the object of the satire, without regard to truth or probability. —  Milton
  • He's become a favorite target for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert to lampoon, and been criticized by liberals for over-the-top criticisms of President Barack Obama. —  azfamily.com Automotive
  • He's become a favorite target for Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart to lampoon, and been criticized by liberals for over-the-top criticisms of President Barack Obama.
  • There is a difference between a rant and a lampoon, but it usually it isn't discernable to a pompous ass. codsucker | 3.19.09 @ 7: 28PM —  The American Spectator
  • * "There is a difference between a rant and a lampoon, but it usually it isn't discernable to a pompous ass." —  The American Spectator
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  1. French lampon, perhaps from lampons, let us drink (from a common refrain in drinking songs), first person pl. imperative of lamper, to gulp down, of Germanic origin.

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  1. from French lampon, a lampoon, orig. a drinking-song, from lampons, let us drink, 1st person plural imperative of lamper, drink, nasalized form of Old French lapper, laper, drink, of Old Low German origin, Anglo-Saxon lapian, etc., lap, drink: see lap, v.
  2. from lampoon, n.
 

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