Synonyms of the word

lampoon

• n. A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution.
• v. To satirize or poke fun at.

blackguard

• n. A scoundrel; an unprincipled contemptible person; an untrustworthy person.
• v. To revile or abuse in scurrilous language.

burlesque

• adj. Parodical; parodic.
• n. A derisive art form that mocks by imitation; a parody.
• n. A variety adult entertainment show, usually including titillation such as striptease, most common from…
• n. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
• v. To make a burlesque parody of.
• v. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.

caricature

• n. A pictorial representation of someone in which distinguishing features are exaggerated for comic effect.
• n. A grotesque misrepresentation.
• v. To represent someone in an exaggerated or distorted manner.

charade

• n. (literature, archaic) A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its…
• n. (uncommon) A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
• n. (obsolete) A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
• n. A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.

guy

• n. (Britain) An effigy of a man burned on a bonfire on the anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot (5th November).
• n. (dated) A person of eccentric appearance or dress; a "fright".
• n. (colloquial) A man, fellow; also (especially in plural) in more gender-neutral sense, a person.
• n. (colloquial, of animals and sometimes objects) Thing, creature.
• n. (colloquial, figuratively) Thing, unit.
• n. (informal, term of address) Buster, Mack, fella, bud, man.
• v. (intransitive) To exhibit an effigy of Guy Fawkes around the 5th November.
• v. (transitive) To make fun of, to ridicule with wit or innuendo.
• n. (obsolete, rare) A guide; a leader or conductor.
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support rope or cable used to guide, steady or secure something which is being hoisted…
• n. (chiefly nautical) A support to secure or steady something prone to shift its position or be carried away…
• v. To equip with a support cable.

imitation

• n. The act of imitating.
• n. A copy.
• n. (attributive) not the real thing.

impersonation

• n. the act of impersonating.

mockery

• n. The action of mocking; ridicule, derision.
• n. Something so lacking in necessary qualities as to inspire ridicule; a laughing-stock.
• n. (obsolete) Something insultingly imitative; an offensively futile action, gesture etc.
• n. Mimicry, imitation, now usually in a derogatory sense; a travesty, a ridiculous simulacrum.

parody

• n. A work or performance that imitates another work or performance with ridicule or irony.
• n. (archaic) A popular maxim, adage, or proverb.
• v. To make a parody of something.

pasquinade

• n. A lampoon, originally as published in public; a satire or libel on someone.
• v. (transitive) To satirize (someone) by using a pasquinade.

put-on

• n. A deception, hoax, or practical joke.

rib

• n. Any of a series of long curved bones occurring in 12 pairs in humans and other animals and extending from…
• n. A part or piece, similar to a rib, and serving to shape or support something.
• n. A cut of meat enclosing one or more rib bones.
• n. (nautical) Any of several curved members attached to a ship's keel and extending upward and outward to…
• n. Any of several transverse pieces that provide an aircraft wing with shape and strength.
• n. (architecture) A long, narrow, usually arched member projecting from the surface of a structure, especially…
• n. (knitting) A raised ridge in knitted material or in cloth.
• n. (botany) The main, or any of the prominent veins of a leaf.
• n. A teasing joke.
• n. (Ireland, colloquial) A single strand of hair.
• n. A stalk of celery.
• n. (archaic, literary, humorous) A wife or woman.
• v. To shape, support, or provide something with a rib or ribs.
• v. To tease or make fun of someone in a good-natured way.
• v. To enclose, as if with ribs, and protect; to shut in.
• v. (transitive) To leave strips of undisturbed ground between the furrows in ploughing (land).

ridicule

• v. (transitive) to criticize or disapprove of someone or something through scornful jocularity; to make fun…
• n. derision; mocking or humiliating words or behaviour.
• n. An object of sport or laughter; a laughing stock.
• n. The quality of being ridiculous; ridiculousness.
• adj. (obsolete) ridiculous.

roast

• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To cook food by heating in an oven or over a fire without covering,…
• v. To cook by surrounding with hot embers, ashes, sand, etc.
• v. (transitive or intransitive or ergative) To process by drying through exposure to sun or artificial heat.
• v. To heat to excess; to heat violently; to burn.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To admonish someone vigorously.
• v. (transitive, figuratively) To subject to bantering, severely criticize, sometimes as a comedy routine.
• v. (metalworking) To dissipate by heat the volatile parts of, as ores.
• n. A cut of meat suited to roasting.
• n. A meal consisting of roast foods.
• n. The degree to which something, especially coffee, is roasted.
• n. (Originally fraternal) A comical event where a person is subjected to verbal attack, yet may be praised…
• adj. having been cooked by roasting.
• adj. (figuratively) subjected to roasting, bantered, severely criticized.

satirise

• v. To make a satire of; to mock.

satirize

• v. To make a satire of; to mock.

sendup

• n. Alternative form of send-up.

spoof

• n. A hoax.
• n. A light parody.
• n. Nonsense.
• n. (Britain) A drinking game in which players hold up to three (or another specified number of) coins hidden…
• adj. Fake.
• v. (transitive) To gently satirize.
• v. (transitive) To deceive.
• v. (transitive, computing) To falsify.
• n. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) Semen.
• v. (Australia, New Zealand, slang) To ejaculate, to come.

takeoff

• n. The rising or ascent of an aircraft or rocket into flight.
• n. A parody or lampoon of someone or something.
• n. A quantification, especially of building materials.
• n. (printing, Britain, historical) The removal of sheets from the press.
• n. The spot from which one takes off; specifically, the place from which a jumper rises in leaping.

travesty

• n. An absurd or grotesque misrepresentation.
• n. A parody or stylistic imitation.
• n. (pejorative) A grossly inferior imitation.
• v. (transitive) To make a travesty of; to parody.