poke fun at's Usage Examples:

The lyrics poke fun at the common depiction of love in popular songs as a host of malignant.

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.

set to different words) often have Barbershop "in-jokes" where they poke fun at other quartets and singers, themselves, and even the contest judges.

This comic and its authors poke fun at people who poke fun at them.

Lewis to poke fun at a very serious error in thinking that, he alleged, recurs often in a.

The story aims to poke fun at the apparent desire to conform embedded in the British psyche, as well.

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

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

Shakespeare may have used this character to poke fun at play censorship in London at the time.

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

As a satire, its aim was to poke fun at the superficial nature of the record industry, and celebrity in general.

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

entitled Dancing for Mental Health, used affirmations set to music to poke fun at the self-help entrepreneurs who "build the listener's inner self and.

has admitted that the interview was something of a joke, intended to poke fun at the dark tone of the album.

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.

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.

World War II film part of the popular tradition of chanchadas, aiming to poke fun at Nazi Germany with whom Brazil was now at war.

The characters poke fun at national stereotypes and international relations, as well as historical.

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

Synonyms:

play; turn; bat;

Antonyms:

inactivity; overact; underact; immovableness;