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noun

plural of parody

as in spoofs

a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect the musical is a parody of every biblical epic ever made

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as in jokes

a poor, insincere, or insulting imitation of something the young man sported a feeble parody of a mustache in a vain attempt to make himself look older

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verb

present tense third-person singular of parody

as in mocks

to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of parodying a public figure's distinctive mannerisms takes particular talent

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Recent Examples of parodies

Noun

The five stars teased the project with parodies of their characters in a promo video. — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2026 The name of the collection parodies the seriousness of the museum, even as the collection itself is the kind of thing that has traditionally gotten scant attention within actual institutions. — Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 30 Sep. 2026 His high-water mark was without a doubt the United Way commercial, one of the best commercial parodies of the last 25 years. — Matt Reigle Outkick, FOXNews.com, 9 Sep. 2026 Humphrey, a content creator, is known for her elaborate video parodies of unusual weddings. — New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026 The show was a phenomenon that continues to inspire copycats and parodies; Hansen emerged as an icon for some, and a meme for others. — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2026 The reel — shot chin-first, uploaded at midnight — inspired countless parodies. — Omkar Khandekar, NPR, 2 Sep. 2026 This magazine, established in 1955, publishes lighthearted parodies of academic literature, bogus scientific studies, and satirical commentary on absurd research. — Encyclopedia Britannica, 31 Aug. 2026 MacDonald and editor Phil Hignett have a keen, witty sense of how the online realm crashes offline living, seamlessly integrating deadly-accurate TikTok parodies into the film’s breezy narrative flow. — Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Aug. 2026

Verb

In another nod to Scream, Cheri Oteri parodies Courteney Cox’s Gale Weathers as the comically unethical news anchor Gail Hailstorm. — Skyler Trepel, Entertainment Weekly, 27 June 2026 Ben Hania’s film before that, 2020’s Oscar-nominated The Man Who Sold His Skin, parodies the art world’s fetishization of refugees. — Alexander Durie, Time, 3 Mar. 2026 Newsom has been trying to raise his national profile, adopting a combative style that parodies Trump’s social media strategy with similar all-caps posts, memes and merchandise. — Adriana Gomez Licon, Fortune, 26 Oct. 2025 One of the videos adorably parodies the premiere episode with Katar and Sokka discovering Aang and battling Zuko and the Fire Nation. — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025 For the social media stars — whose content parodies their real lives through comedic skits — the new baby will also present an opportunity for new kinds of videos. — Luke Chinman, People.com, 25 Aug. 2025 South Park’s Eric Cartman parodies Kirk in the episode by asking a college student a question, referencing Kirk’s viral debates on college campuses. — Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 8 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The film draws on 1980s supernatural comedies, including Back to the Future, Ghostbusters and The Addams Family, alongside classic monster movies and horror spoofs.

— Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 22 Oct. 2026
Blanchett cofounded the nonprofit Human Consent Foundation to help people register how AI models can — or cannot — scrape their likenesses in an effort to combat such spoofs.

— Corbin Bolies, Variety, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of spoofs

Noun

Hang on through an opening salvo of political jokes that elapsed time and Tuesday’s election results have rendered stale (Rudy Giuliani, anybody?

— Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2026
Ruiz Caldera wanted Romero in the lead, although the comedian worried that viewers would expect jokes from a screenplay containing almost none.

— Emiliano de Pablos, Variety, 5 Nov. 2026

Definition of jokes

Noun

Yet, the brothers aren’t looking to get overly political, even if their films are often satires.

— Elsa Keslassy, Variety, 17 Oct. 2026
Swift was born into the Anglo-Irish Protestant elite, and the text satires both the callousness of his class and a then-ascendant approach to morality and politics that held that all aspects of life could be cooked down to a pure numerical value.

— Dónal Gill, The Dial, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of satires

Noun

As is the case with most election cycles, the claims and counterclaims about the ballot measures being voted on in California this time around are largely based on caricatures of the measures themselves.

— Business Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2026
But Iñárritu’s caricatures become people in a way Kubrick’s don’t; as the bewildered President, for example, John Goodman is simultaneously grounded and theatrical in his presentation, recalling his best work with the Coen brothers.

— Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 30 Sep. 2026

Definition of caricatures

Verb

After a long chase Rama is able to kill the deer with his arrow, but, before dying, Maricha imitates Rama’s voice and cries out for Sita and Lakshmana.

— Tamanna Nangia, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Oct. 2026
Constantin Brâncuși’s marble-and-limestone sculpture L’oiseau (1923/1947), for example, commands the space, while Wolfgang Tillmans’s 2022 photograph tree filling window imitates an open window in a closed space.

— Hikmat Mohammed, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of imitates

Noun

What readers are saying The conversation explores mixed reactions to the editorial cartoons featured in the opinion piece.

— Edith Pritchett, Washington Post, 30 Oct. 2026
Addams spent most of his career as a cartoonist for The New Yorker magazine, which published many of his Addams family cartoons, including his very first, in 1938.

— ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026

Definition of cartoons

Verb

California Surfaces does mostly new homes and commercial jobs such as airports and hospitals.

— The New York Times News Service Syndicate, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Nov. 2026
The robot does the physical work while a person controls its movements from a safer location.

— Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 7 Nov. 2026

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