POKE FUN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poke fun mean? 

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

1. subject to laughter or ridicule

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• POKE 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 "poke fun" is one way to...):

bemock; mock (treat with contempt)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "poke 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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