burlesque

burlesque has 10 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 9.

Definitions

• a.. Tending to excite laughter or contempt by extravagant images, or by a contrast between the subject and the manner of treating it, as when a trifling subject is treated with mock gravity; jocular; ironical.
• n.. Ludicrous representation; exaggerated parody; grotesque satire.
• n.. An ironical or satirical composition intended to excite laughter, or to ridicule anything.
• n.. A ludicrous imitation; a caricature; a travesty; a gross perversion.
• v. t.. To ridicule, or to make ludicrous by grotesque representation in action or in language.
• v. i.. To employ burlesque.
• n.. a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way
• n.. a theatrical entertainment of broad and earthy humor; consists of comic skits and short turns (and sometimes striptease)
• v.. make a parody of; "The students spoofed the teachers"
• a.. relating to or characteristic of a burlesque; "burlesque theater"