poke fun at's Usage Examples:

another delightful example of Waylon"s eagerness to poke fun at the highfalutin music industry, in this case, Willie Nelson and the redneck rock thing.

Several taximen began to poke fun at him.

The series debuted in 2003 and became popular thanks to its amusing characters, witty script, and capacity to integrate and poke fun at contemporary issues; the program presents a caustic satire of many of the archetypes found in Spanish society.

it was asserted that despite political correctness, it is possible to poke fun at yokels as no-one sees themselves as being one.

dramatic and fantastical childhood nightmares, these scenarios instead poke fun at the banal paranoias that come as a part of parenting.

While many of their songs poke fun at common Turkish types ("Ali Desidero", "Piskopatım") or satirise prejudice.

football halftime shows which, as MOB director Chuck Throckmorton says, poke fun at rival universities" sacred cows.

name which was thought up by the tour promoters, was meant in part to poke fun at the inaccurate idea that Tad alone weighed more than all of the members.

Des Bishop, Kevin Hart and Joan Rivers draw on their background to poke fun at themselves, while others such as Jon Stewart, and Ben Elton have very.

Words spelled by the audience volunteers are often unscripted and sometimes improvised by the cast to gently poke fun at the volunteer speller.

The song"s lyrics poke fun at the cheesiest of the 1980s hair band"s "party" lyrics; Wylde himself noted that "parody".

"Morrison is so pleased with his new start that he can even poke fun at his quest on the title track.

bit of dubbing-it-up, found vocals (in this instance, used largely to poke fun at the military), odd sounds, the works.

Synonyms:

play, turn, bat,

Antonyms:

inactivity, overact, underact, immovableness,