MAKE FUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does make fun mean? 

• MAKE FUN (verb)
  The verb MAKE FUN has 1 sense:

1. subject to laughter or ridicule

  Familiarity information: MAKE FUN used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAKE FUN (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Subject to laughter or ridicule

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

blackguard; guy; jest at; laugh at; make fun; poke fun; rib; ridicule; roast

Context example:

His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday

Hypernyms (to "make fun" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "make fun"):

tease (mock or make fun of playfully)

lampoon; satirise; satirize (ridicule with satire)

debunk; expose (expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas)

stultify (cause to appear foolish)

Sentence frames:

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Somebody ----s something PP
Somebody ----s PP

 Context examples 

For though we do have to work, we make fun of ourselves, and are a pretty jolly set, as Jo would say.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

He was choosing to make fun with her, Maria, with whom few made fun these days.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Maybe she make fun, too, so I say, 'Let me see thousand dollars.' And that woman, that young woman, all alone on the trail, there in the snow, she take out one thousand dollars, in greenbacks, and she put them in my hand. I look at money, I look at her. What can I say?

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I just will, though, for it's capital, so shady, light, and big. It will make fun, and I don't mind being a guy if I'm comfortable."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

"I'm afraid he'll laugh at our paper, and make fun of us afterward," observed Pickwick, pulling the little curl on her forehead, as she always did when doubtful.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)