send-up

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

(informal) an act of making sb/sth look silly by copying them in a funny way: Her book is a hilarious send-up of a conventional spy story.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

Same word in other sources

send-upEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary send-upEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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semitone semi-tropical semivowel semolina semtex Sen.senate senator send sender sending-off

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