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To lampoon is defined as to parody or publicly criticize someone or something using humor.

(verb)

When you make a cartoon about a politician's new platform and publish it, this is an example of a time when you lampoon his new platform.

The definition of a lampoon is a speech or text that parodies someone or something or that uses humor to criticize.

(noun)

A cartoon making fun of a politician is an example of a lampoon.

See lampoon in Webster's New World College Dictionary

noun

a piece of satirical writing, usually attacking or ridiculing someone

Origin: Fr lampon < lampons, let us drink (refrain in a drinking song) < lamper, to guzzle: see lampas

transitive verb

to attack or ridicule by means of a lampoon

Related Forms:

lampooner noun or lampoonist
lampoonery noun

See lampoon in American Heritage Dictionary 4

noun

A written attack ridiculing a person, group, or institution. See Synonyms at caricature.
A light, good-humored satire.

transitive verb lam·pooned, lam·poon·ing, lam·poons

To ridicule or satirize in or as if in a lampoon.

Origin:

Origin: French lampon

Origin: , perhaps from lampons, let us drink (from a common refrain in drinking songs)

Origin: , first person pl. imperative of lamper, to gulp down

Origin: , of Germanic origin

Related Forms:

lam·poonˈer, lam·poonˈist noun

lam·poonˈer·y noun

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