Search Result for "poke_fun":
Wordnet 3.0

VERB (1)

1. subject to laughter or ridicule;
- Example: "The satirists ridiculed the plans for a new opera house"
- Example: "The students poked fun at the inexperienced teacher"
- Example: "His former students roasted the professor at his 60th birthday"
[syn: ridicule, roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib, make fun, poke fun]



WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

poke fun
    v 1: 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" [syn: ridicule,
         roast, guy, blackguard, laugh at, jest at, rib,
         make fun, poke fun]