Definition of lampoon in English:

lampoon

verb lamˈpuːnlæmˈpun

[with object]

Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
the actor was lampooned by the press
Example sentencesExamples
- First came a song lampooning the chancellor for breaking his promises on tax.
- The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
- More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2.
- And so the institution in which Ned finds his home is lampooned with glee - probably because they can.
- Closed circuit cameras in city centres were lampooned as being ‘Big Brother’ when they were first introduced.
- Wallace & Gromit has a lot of good-natured fun lampooning conventions from old horror movies (both those from Universal and Hammer).
- They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism.
- William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards.
- Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed.
- In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
- He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college.
- He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.
- Adverts for the £60,000 a year jobs were lampooned in The Daily Telegraph's non-job of the week column, last October.
- It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press, radio and TV.
- This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
- But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper.
- The Europeans lampooned him as a savage - and worse.
- Gordon Liu, a veteran Chinese actor, has a standout role lampooning the traditional kung-fu master role.
- Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.
- It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with.
Synonyms
satirize, mock, ridicule, make fun of, poke fun at, caricature, burlesque, parody, take off, guy, make a fool of, rag, tease
informal send up
rare pasquinade

noun lamˈpuːnlæmˈpun

A speech or text lampooning someone or something.
the magazine fired at God, Royalty, and politicians, using cartoons and lampoons
Example sentencesExamples
- Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting.
- This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon.
- An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons.
- The story comes across as a lampoon of Hollywood, a sort of lame echo of Robert Altman's The Player.
- In one hour, he takes on 50 different caricatures in a flurry of bright-coloured paper cut-outs, all of them elaborate, exaggerated lampoons of familiar icons, moving from one to another like a human flick-book.
- America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast.
- Great lampoons introduce a familiar setup then take the audience somewhere unexpected.
- Ted's first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
- As noted earlier, this ideologically confused lampoon seems unsure of its target.
- His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.
- The result was a wacky lampoon featuring dolls, newspapers, and rolls of tape.
- It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers.
- This is not simply a lampoon of the genius-architect; it is also an homage by the one-time architecture student.
- However, in many ways the film is more of a lampoon of Hollywood than current US policy.
- So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian.
- Nothing destroys a lampoon faster than someone unwilling to take it seriously.
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon.
- She had a score of minor writers imprisoned without trial for writing lampoons against her.
- Reid's ardent theme, ‘Izzy and Lizzy,’ with the same bar pattern as ‘Frankie and Johnnie,’ is a lampoon of the sordid nineteenth-century folk song.
- So I think you're still playing a fine line, but I am satirising him and the lampoon is this - here is a very hungry, publicity-seeking guy who will do anything for anybody given the opportunity.
Synonyms
satire, burlesque, parody, skit, caricature, imitation, impersonation, impression, travesty, take-off, mockery, squib
informal send-up, spoof
rare pasquinade

Derivatives

lampooner

noun lamˈpuːnəlæmˈpunər

A person who publicly criticizes someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
a lampooner of new social movements
Example sentencesExamples
- I can't wait for the lampooners to go to town on his lower lip-swivelling characteristics.
- He could almost have written the hymn himself - about himself - the lampooners are saying.
- Similarly as a lyricist and polemicist he was both a consistent critic of corporate capitalism (in particular ‘the culture industry’ and organised religion) and a very spiky lampooner of new social movements.

lampoonery

noun

With Die Mommie Die, camp theater dragmeister-playwright Charles Busch brings his lampoonery to the screen for a shot at movie stardom.
Example sentencesExamples
- But some apt political lampoonery, a dash of adroit physical comedy, a pinch of puppetry and a few saucy tunes give Insanity Fair some entertaining moments.
- Unfortunately, there's no time for lampoonery as the teams and their mascots click-clack out of the tunnel and line up on either side of the match officials.
- On the show he still refused to play the game, refused to step out of role, to relax into Ross's spree of commentary and lampoonery.

lampoonist

noun lamˈpuːnɪstlæmˈpunəst

Satire can be as cruel as it likes: cartoonists, lampoonists, Spitting Image - whatever.
Example sentencesExamples
- His apotheosis as a political lampoonist is to be found in what is considered to be by many the best Marx Brothers movie: Duck Soup.

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French lampon, said to be from lampons 'let us drink' (used as a refrain), from lamper 'gulp down', nasalized form of laper 'to lap (liquid)'.

The source of English lampoon meaning ‘publicly criticize by using ridicule or irony’ is French lampon. This is said to be from the refrain of popular French drinking songs in the 1600s lampons ‘let us drink!’, from lamper ‘gulp down’.

Rhymes

afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon

Definition of lampoon in US English:

lampoon

verblamˈpo͞onlæmˈpun

[with object]

Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm.
the senator made himself famous as a pinch-penny watchdog of public spending, lampooning dubious federal projects
Example sentencesExamples
- In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie.
- William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards.
- This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world.
- More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2.
- Adverts for the £60,000 a year jobs were lampooned in The Daily Telegraph's non-job of the week column, last October.
- It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with.
- The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes.
- First came a song lampooning the chancellor for breaking his promises on tax.
- He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college.
- They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism.
- The Europeans lampooned him as a savage - and worse.
- He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture.
- Gordon Liu, a veteran Chinese actor, has a standout role lampooning the traditional kung-fu master role.
- But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper.
- Wallace & Gromit has a lot of good-natured fun lampooning conventions from old horror movies (both those from Universal and Hammer).
- Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her.
- Closed circuit cameras in city centres were lampooned as being ‘Big Brother’ when they were first introduced.
- It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press, radio and TV.
- Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed.
- And so the institution in which Ned finds his home is lampooned with glee - probably because they can.
Synonyms
satirize, mock, ridicule, make fun of, poke fun at, caricature, burlesque, parody, take off, guy, make a fool of, rag, tease

nounlamˈpo͞onlæmˈpun

A speech or text lampooning someone or something.
does this sound like a lampoon of student life?
Example sentencesExamples
- In one hour, he takes on 50 different caricatures in a flurry of bright-coloured paper cut-outs, all of them elaborate, exaggerated lampoons of familiar icons, moving from one to another like a human flick-book.
- Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting.
- The result was a wacky lampoon featuring dolls, newspapers, and rolls of tape.
- So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian.
- America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast.
- My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon.
- Ted's first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post.
- This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon.
- His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate.
- It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers.
- Great lampoons introduce a familiar setup then take the audience somewhere unexpected.
- She had a score of minor writers imprisoned without trial for writing lampoons against her.
- Nothing destroys a lampoon faster than someone unwilling to take it seriously.
- Reid's ardent theme, ‘Izzy and Lizzy,’ with the same bar pattern as ‘Frankie and Johnnie,’ is a lampoon of the sordid nineteenth-century folk song.
- The story comes across as a lampoon of Hollywood, a sort of lame echo of Robert Altman's The Player.
- An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons.
- So I think you're still playing a fine line, but I am satirising him and the lampoon is this - here is a very hungry, publicity-seeking guy who will do anything for anybody given the opportunity.
- This is not simply a lampoon of the genius-architect; it is also an homage by the one-time architecture student.
- As noted earlier, this ideologically confused lampoon seems unsure of its target.
- However, in many ways the film is more of a lampoon of Hollywood than current US policy.
Synonyms
satire, burlesque, parody, skit, caricature, imitation, impersonation, impression, travesty, take-off, mockery, squib

Origin

Mid 17th century: from French lampon, said to be from lampons ‘let us drink’ (used as a refrain), from lamper ‘gulp down’, nasalized form of laper ‘to lap (liquid)’.

单词	lampoon
释义	Definition of lampoon in English: lampoon verb lamˈpuːnlæmˈpun [with object] Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm. the actor was lampooned by the press Example sentencesExamples First came a song lampooning the chancellor for breaking his promises on tax. The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes. More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2. And so the institution in which Ned finds his home is lampooned with glee - probably because they can. Closed circuit cameras in city centres were lampooned as being ‘Big Brother’ when they were first introduced. Wallace & Gromit has a lot of good-natured fun lampooning conventions from old horror movies (both those from Universal and Hammer). They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism. William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards. Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed. In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie. He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college. He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture. Adverts for the £60,000 a year jobs were lampooned in The Daily Telegraph's non-job of the week column, last October. It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press, radio and TV. This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world. But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper. The Europeans lampooned him as a savage - and worse. Gordon Liu, a veteran Chinese actor, has a standout role lampooning the traditional kung-fu master role. Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her. It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with. Synonyms satirize, mock, ridicule, make fun of, poke fun at, caricature, burlesque, parody, take off, guy, make a fool of, rag, tease informal send up rare pasquinade noun lamˈpuːnlæmˈpun A speech or text lampooning someone or something. the magazine fired at God, Royalty, and politicians, using cartoons and lampoons Example sentencesExamples Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting. This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon. An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons. The story comes across as a lampoon of Hollywood, a sort of lame echo of Robert Altman's The Player. In one hour, he takes on 50 different caricatures in a flurry of bright-coloured paper cut-outs, all of them elaborate, exaggerated lampoons of familiar icons, moving from one to another like a human flick-book. America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast. Great lampoons introduce a familiar setup then take the audience somewhere unexpected. Ted's first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. As noted earlier, this ideologically confused lampoon seems unsure of its target. His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate. The result was a wacky lampoon featuring dolls, newspapers, and rolls of tape. It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers. This is not simply a lampoon of the genius-architect; it is also an homage by the one-time architecture student. However, in many ways the film is more of a lampoon of Hollywood than current US policy. So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian. Nothing destroys a lampoon faster than someone unwilling to take it seriously. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon. She had a score of minor writers imprisoned without trial for writing lampoons against her. Reid's ardent theme, ‘Izzy and Lizzy,’ with the same bar pattern as ‘Frankie and Johnnie,’ is a lampoon of the sordid nineteenth-century folk song. So I think you're still playing a fine line, but I am satirising him and the lampoon is this - here is a very hungry, publicity-seeking guy who will do anything for anybody given the opportunity. Synonyms satire, burlesque, parody, skit, caricature, imitation, impersonation, impression, travesty, take-off, mockery, squib informal send-up, spoof rare pasquinade Derivatives lampooner noun lamˈpuːnəlæmˈpunər A person who publicly criticizes someone or something by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm. a lampooner of new social movements Example sentencesExamples I can't wait for the lampooners to go to town on his lower lip-swivelling characteristics. He could almost have written the hymn himself - about himself - the lampooners are saying. Similarly as a lyricist and polemicist he was both a consistent critic of corporate capitalism (in particular ‘the culture industry’ and organised religion) and a very spiky lampooner of new social movements. lampoonery noun With Die Mommie Die, camp theater dragmeister-playwright Charles Busch brings his lampoonery to the screen for a shot at movie stardom. Example sentencesExamples But some apt political lampoonery, a dash of adroit physical comedy, a pinch of puppetry and a few saucy tunes give Insanity Fair some entertaining moments. Unfortunately, there's no time for lampoonery as the teams and their mascots click-clack out of the tunnel and line up on either side of the match officials. On the show he still refused to play the game, refused to step out of role, to relax into Ross's spree of commentary and lampoonery. lampoonist noun lamˈpuːnɪstlæmˈpunəst Satire can be as cruel as it likes: cartoonists, lampoonists, Spitting Image - whatever. Example sentencesExamples His apotheosis as a political lampoonist is to be found in what is considered to be by many the best Marx Brothers movie: Duck Soup. Origin Mid 17th century: from French lampon, said to be from lampons 'let us drink' (used as a refrain), from lamper 'gulp down', nasalized form of laper 'to lap (liquid)'. The source of English lampoon meaning ‘publicly criticize by using ridicule or irony’ is French lampon. This is said to be from the refrain of popular French drinking songs in the 1600s lampons ‘let us drink!’, from lamper ‘gulp down’. Rhymes afternoon, attune, autoimmune, baboon, balloon, bassoon, bestrewn, boon, Boone, bridoon, buffoon, Cameroon, Cancún, cardoon, cartoon, Changchun, cocoon, commune, croon, doubloon, dragoon, dune, festoon, galloon, goon, harpoon, hoon, immune, importune, impugn, Irgun, jejune, June, Kowloon, lagoon, loon, macaroon, maroon, monsoon, moon, Muldoon, noon, oppugn, picayune, platoon, poltroon, pontoon, poon, prune, puccoon, raccoon, Rangoon, ratoon, rigadoon, rune, saloon, Saskatoon, Sassoon, Scone, soon, spittoon, spoon, swoon, Troon, tune, tycoon, typhoon, Walloon Definition of lampoon in US English: lampoon verblamˈpo͞onlæmˈpun [with object] Publicly criticize (someone or something) by using ridicule, irony, or sarcasm. the senator made himself famous as a pinch-penny watchdog of public spending, lampooning dubious federal projects Example sentencesExamples In the past 18 years he has transformed himself from a spirited iconoclast, fearlessly lampooning the excesses of the rich and famous, into an aspiring member of the haute bourgeoisie. William Hague lampooned him mercilessly for it afterwards. This man's boldness-or foolhardiness-has been lampooned in the press and joked about all over the world. More fairytale favourites are lampooned as Shrek, Donkey and Princess Fiona set out on another whirlwind adventure in the hilarious sequel, Shrek 2. Adverts for the £60,000 a year jobs were lampooned in The Daily Telegraph's non-job of the week column, last October. It is also often very insular, lampooning specific ideas or conventions which even some SF readers may not be familiar with. The courtroom became a vaudeville theatre, as the MP lampooned his interrogators, accusing them of making ‘schoolboy howler’ mistakes. First came a song lampooning the chancellor for breaking his promises on tax. He lampooned the teachers and others in caricature sketches and articles which he would circulate among friends during class at school and later at art college. They're not lampooning designers in general as much as they are design elitism. The Europeans lampooned him as a savage - and worse. He was taken by the idea of lampooning the soaps, but was ultimately more interested in satirizing our celebrity-obsessed culture. Gordon Liu, a veteran Chinese actor, has a standout role lampooning the traditional kung-fu master role. But the shift from lampooning celebrities to flattering them was another thing entirely, a brazen case of poacher turning gamekeeper. Wallace & Gromit has a lot of good-natured fun lampooning conventions from old horror movies (both those from Universal and Hammer). Many men lampooned her for her extravagance, but women, by contrast, envied her. Closed circuit cameras in city centres were lampooned as being ‘Big Brother’ when they were first introduced. It lampooned the way in which women are portrayed as sex objects in the daily press, radio and TV. Punch, the satirical magazine that lampooned the establishment for more than 150 years, has closed. And so the institution in which Ned finds his home is lampooned with glee - probably because they can. Synonyms satirize, mock, ridicule, make fun of, poke fun at, caricature, burlesque, parody, take off, guy, make a fool of, rag, tease nounlamˈpo͞onlæmˈpun A speech or text lampooning someone or something. does this sound like a lampoon of student life? Example sentencesExamples In one hour, he takes on 50 different caricatures in a flurry of bright-coloured paper cut-outs, all of them elaborate, exaggerated lampoons of familiar icons, moving from one to another like a human flick-book. Peter Rostovsky's third solo show at The Project was at once a lampoon of and homage to Romantic landscape painting. The result was a wacky lampoon featuring dolls, newspapers, and rolls of tape. So I was particularly impressed with John O'Farrell's lampoon of the new gambling laws in today's Guardian. America's Sweethearts is first and foremost a lampoon of today's Hollywood, and its targets are as diverse as the cast. My Big Fat Greek Wedding is more in the nature of an embrace and celebration of Greek culture than it is a lampoon. Ted's first cartoon, a lampoon of the Lawrence of Arabia craze, appeared in the July 16, 1927, issue of the Saturday Evening Post. This is probably the most nuanced, delicately expressed message of the film and it seems to be the one area where he doesn't go for the kneejerk answer or the easy lampoon. His taunting of the king and a scurrilous lampoon of Charles II in front of the French ambassador helps to seal his fate. It also experienced severe financial setbacks, rioting, verbal and physical abuse, and lampoons in city papers. Great lampoons introduce a familiar setup then take the audience somewhere unexpected. She had a score of minor writers imprisoned without trial for writing lampoons against her. Nothing destroys a lampoon faster than someone unwilling to take it seriously. Reid's ardent theme, ‘Izzy and Lizzy,’ with the same bar pattern as ‘Frankie and Johnnie,’ is a lampoon of the sordid nineteenth-century folk song. The story comes across as a lampoon of Hollywood, a sort of lame echo of Robert Altman's The Player. An early example of this was Bizarre, a show that seemed intent on shocking, not least by a liberal sprinkling of the f-word in its irreverent sketches and lampoons. So I think you're still playing a fine line, but I am satirising him and the lampoon is this - here is a very hungry, publicity-seeking guy who will do anything for anybody given the opportunity. This is not simply a lampoon of the genius-architect; it is also an homage by the one-time architecture student. As noted earlier, this ideologically confused lampoon seems unsure of its target. However, in many ways the film is more of a lampoon of Hollywood than current US policy. Synonyms satire, burlesque, parody, skit, caricature, imitation, impersonation, impression, travesty, take-off, mockery, squib Origin Mid 17th century: from French lampon, said to be from lampons ‘let us drink’ (used as a refrain), from lamper ‘gulp down’, nasalized form of laper ‘to lap (liquid)’.
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