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make fun

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Verb1.make funmake fun - subject to laughter or ridicule; "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"
blackguard, guy, jest at, laugh at, poke fun, ridicule, roast, rib
bemock, mock - treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles"
tease - mock or make fun of playfully; "the flirting man teased the young woman"
lampoon, satirise, satirize - ridicule with satire; "The writer satirized the politician's proposal"
debunk, expose - expose while ridiculing; especially of pretentious or false claims and ideas; "The physicist debunked the psychic's claims"
stultify - cause to appear foolish; "He stultified himself by contradicting himself and being inconsistent"


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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 Alcott, Louisa May View in context
" she exclaimed, furiously:" I'll teach you to spy out my secrets and to make fun of me
The Marvelous Land of Oz by Baum, L. Frank View in context
He was choosing to make fun with her, Maria, with whom few made fun these days.
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