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lampoon

/læmˈpun/

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What does lampoon mean?

noun

  1. A written attack or other work ridiculing a person, group, or institution; especially, a satirical one.

verb

  1. To satirize or poke fun at.
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/læmˈpun/

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"And then for mine obligingly mistakes The first lampoon Sir Will, or Bubo makes."-E.
Horace WalpoleThe Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2Project Gutenberg ebook #4610
In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart’s core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history.
Karl Marx; Friedrich EngelsThe Communist ManifestoProject Gutenberg ebook #61