POKE FUN as VERB

  1. Meaning
    • subject to laughter or ridicule
    Synonym(s) Usage Example(s)
    • The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house
    • The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher
    • His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday
    Hypernyms(s) poke fun is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower Hyponym(s) Derived(s)