lampoon

plural lampoons

1. A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.

   To say truth, Ma'am, 'tis very vulgar to Print and as my little Productions are mostly Satires and Lampoons I find they circulate more by giving copies in confidence to the Friends of the Parties—

   1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, I.i

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   "Dangerous things, sir—dangerous things!" exclaimed Mr. Lintot, drawing a deep breath of air from the open window: "do you know, sir, Curl published a lampoon on Lord Hervey the other day, who said that he would have horsewhipped him if he could have found his way into the city...

   1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Alteration”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 22

present singular third person lampoons · participle present lampooning · participle past lampooned · past lampooned

1. transitiveTo satirize or poke fun at.

   The original phrase was frequently lampooned in subsequent years, becoming strong enough in popular culture that the variations in place of ‘drugs’ probably didn’t take long to appear at all.

   2009 June 24, “this is your brain on X”, in The Snowclones Database

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   Her tone shift involved former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton lampooning their fellow ex-president as a figure of ridicule. Then Harris closed the trap with a line in her convention speech: “Trump is an unserious man. But the consequences … of putting Donald Trump back in the White House are extremely serious.”

   2024 August 26, Stephen Collinson, “Trump’s personal attacks aren’t just who he is. They’re his strategy”, in CNN

   Synonyms: diss, trash talk, jibe, kid, assassinate, asperse, backbite, badmouth