as in parody
a work that imitates and exaggerates another work for comic effect
a singer-comedian who specializes in send-ups of pop hits
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as in to imitate
to copy or exaggerate (someone or something) in order to make fun of
the sitcom sends up the "trials and tribulations" of the rich and famous
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Recent Examples of send-up
Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Yang and Rogers started the Culture Awards in 2022, spinning off the awards show send-up/tribute from their hit podcast, Las Culturistas.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Amazon has sent up 102 satellites through a series of rocket launches since April.
—Annie Palmer,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
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Noun
Over the course of her directing career, Nisha Ganatra has tackled nearly every stripe of comedy, from cute romances to wacky workplaces, mistaken identities to screwball send-ups.
—Kate Erbland, IndieWire, 7 Aug. 2025
Yang and Rogers started the Culture Awards in 2022, spinning off the awards show send-up/tribute from their hit podcast, Las Culturistas.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025
Verb
The investigation eventually revealed that Lauryn's mom, Kendra Licari, was the person who had been sending up to 50 cruel texts a day to her then-13-year-old daughter and her daughter's ex-boyfriend for two years.
—Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 12 Sep. 2025
Amazon has sent up 102 satellites through a series of rocket launches since April.
—Annie Palmer,leslie Josephs, CNBC, 4 Sep. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for send-up
Noun
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Her only acting credit so far is a short parody sketch called AI Commissioner.—
Aamir Khollam,
Interesting Engineering,
1 Oct. 2025
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Aimee Lou Wood doesn’t regret criticizing Saturday Night Live over their parody of her character on The White Lotus.—
McKinley Franklin,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The fact that these programs are becoming adept at imitating consciousness, however, may be all that matters for now.—
Webb Wright,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Multiple images of Trump then pop up behind the New York lawmaker seemingly to imitate a mariachi band.—
Hollie Silverman,
MSNBC Newsweek,
30 Sep. 2025
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Moranis, Zuniga, Pullman, Brooks, and Wyner are set to reprise their iconic roles in the sequel to the 1987 sci-fi spoof, with Gad, Palmer, Lewis Pullman, and Anthony Carrigan playing new, undisclosed characters.—
Joey Nolfi,
Entertainment Weekly,
25 Sep. 2025
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Alan Dershowitz, the famed attorney who once counted Epstein as a client, submitted a spoof cover of Vanity Fair, tweaked as Vanity Unfair, with fake headlines speculating that Epstein was Jack the Ripper and had financed the terrorist group Al Qaeda.—
Miles Klee,
Rolling Stone,
9 Sep. 2025
Verb
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The ability to criticize, question, protest, and even mock those in power is foundational to what America has always aspired to be.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
1 Oct. 2025
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After the White House meeting, the president posted a cartoonish fake video mocking the Democratic leadership that was widely viewed as unserious and racist.—
Mary Clare Jalonick,
Fortune,
1 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Free speech covers the jokes, the satire, the parodies—even the dumb, crass, or offensive ones.—
Lizz Winstead,
Time,
27 Sep. 2025
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Its themes and political satire definitely feel of the moment, but what’s explosive doesn’t always equate to propulsive.—
Brian Truitt,
USA Today,
26 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Many of those that still produce a large share of their products in cities and towns such as Geneva, Vevey, and Zurich—like Nestlé’s Nespresso coffee arm, DSM-Firmenich, and heavy industrial equipment makers like ABB and Hitachi Energy—are unusual in being able to do so competitively.—
Peter Vanham,
Fortune,
2 Oct. 2025
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But, to do you any good, squeezing the veins must propel the blood in the right direction, toward the heart.—
Bryant Stamford,
Louisville Courier Journal,
2 Oct. 2025
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“Send-up.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/send-up. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.
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