Definitions
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- v. To subject (someone) to laughter or ridicule.
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- v. subject to laughter or ridicule
Etymologies
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Examples
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It was easy enough to poke fun at Archbishop Thomson, Bishop W.lberforce, and Bishop Ellicott; Mr. Moody, and the Rev.W. Cattle, and the clergymen who write to the Guardian.
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They weren’t what we in Chicago call “Lakefront Liberals” - the so-called Volvo-driving, latte-sipping, white-wine-drinking Democrats that Republicans love to poke fun at and might be expected to embrace a lost cause such as mine.
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In 2001 at the Gridiron Dinner, where political figures and journalists poke fun at themselves and one another, President George W. Bush acknowledged his habit of tripping over his tongue with the line You know that foot ’n’ mouth disease rampant in Europe?
onursaka commented on the word poke fun
poke fun at something or somebody
January 29, 2012